Efficacy of a novel personalised aflibercept monotherapy regimen based on polypoidal lesion closure in participants with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

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PURPOSE: To compare the efficacy of aflibercept using a personalised versus fixed regimen in treatment-naïve participants with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV).

DESIGN: A 52-week, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority, single-centre study that included participants with symptomatic PCV. Participants were randomised (3:1 ratio) to receive either personalised (n=40) or fixed 8-weekly treatment regimen (n=13). The personalised regimen allowed for either early treat and extend (T&E) after week 12 or late T&E with 3 additional 4-weekly aflibercept injections until week 24 in participants with residual polypoidal lesions (PL) on indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) at week 12.

MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Non-inferiority of personalised to fixed regimen for mean change in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) from baseline to week 52 (non-inferiority margin: -5 letters). The key secondary outcomes include reduction in central subfield thickness (CSFT) on optical coherence tomography and the anatomical closure of PL on ICGA.

RESULTS: Of the 53 participants, the mean (SD) age was 69.2 (8.1) years, 19 (35.8 %) were male. Personalised group was non-inferior to fixed for the primary end point (+8.1 vs +7.9 letters at week 52, respectively; difference 0.16, 95% CI -2.8 to 2.4, p=0.79). There was greater reduction in mean CSFT (SD) in the personalised versus fixed group (-248.8 (169.9) vs -164.8 (148.9) µm, p=0.03). Closure of PL occurred in 21 (55.2%) and 5 (41.6%) of study eyes in personalised and fixed groups, respectively at week 52 (p=0.41).

CONCLUSIONS: Personalised regimen achieved non-inferior BCVA gain and numerically higher PL closure compared with fixed regimen.

TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT03117634.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:106

Enthalten in:

The British journal of ophthalmology - 106(2022), 7 vom: 11. Juli, Seite 987-993

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Teo, Kelvin Yi Chong [VerfasserIn]
Jordan-Yu, Janice Marie [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Anna C S [VerfasserIn]
Yeo, Ian Y S [VerfasserIn]
Mathur, Ranjana [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Choi Mun [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Tien Yin [VerfasserIn]
Chakravarthy, Usha [VerfasserIn]
Cheung, Chui Ming Gemmy [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

15C2VL427D
Aflibercept
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Clinical trial
EC 2.7.10.1
Imaging
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Retina
Treatment other

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Date Completed 24.06.2022

Date Revised 22.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03117634

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bjophthalmol-2020-318354

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321340396