Status:

UNKNOWN

Assessment of Pupil Light Responses in Patients With Parkinson Disease

Lead Sponsor:

Sheba Medical Center

Conditions:

Parkinson Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

30-75 years

Brief Summary

Parkinson diseases (PD) is the second most common degenerative disease of the central nervous system. The development of early diagnostic biomarkers may help identify at-risk individuals and allow pre...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • General inclusion criteria
  • Age 30-75 years old
  • Signed written informed consent
  • Gender: Both (Male and Female)
  • Pupillary reflex to light.
  • Clear ocular media
  • Patients'
  • Patients with clinical presentations of the neurodegenerative forms of parkinsonism (bradykinesia, extrapyramidal rigidity, tremor, postural instability and gait disturbance) including: idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD), Lewy body disease (LBD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), multiple system atrophy (MSA), corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and secondary parkinsonisms.
  • Control group- inclusion criteria
  • Normal eye examination
  • Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/20
  • Normal color vision test (Farnsworth/Lanthon D-15 Test)
  • No present ocular disease
  • No past ocular disease or surgery within last 6 months
  • No use of any topical or systemic medications that could adversely influence efferent pupil movements
  • Normal 24-2 Humphrey visual field and
  • Short duration (≤10 minutes)
  • Minimal fixation losses, False positive errors and False negative errors (less than 30% for each one of reliability indices)

Exclusion

  • Diagnosis of dementia.
  • Cognitive decline that may impair obtaining informed consent.
  • Tremor or dyskinesia that could interfere with ophthalmic evaluation
  • History of past (last 3 months) or present ocular disease or ocular surgery
  • Use of any topical or systemic medications that could adversely influence pupillary reflex
  • Psychiatric illness, active psychosis.
  • Previous neurosurgical interventions, including stereotactic neurosurgical procedures.
  • Past or current strokes or brain injury and other brain disorders (except PD/parkinsonism for patient group)
  • Anti-dopaminergic drugs.
  • Intolerance to gonioscopy, slit lamp examination, Goldmann applanation tomometry or other schedule study procedure.
  • Visual media opacity including cloudy corneas.
  • Any condition preventing accurate measurement or examination of the pupil.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 20 2019

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 31 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

200 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04117555

Start Date

November 20 2019

End Date

December 31 2024

Last Update

November 22 2023

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Goldschleger Eye Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center,

Tel Litwinsky, Israel, 52621