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Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial
This study has been completed.

First Received on August 19, 2005.   Last Updated on October 26, 2011   History of Changes
Sponsor: JHSPH Center for Clinical Trials
Collaborator: National Eye Institute (NEI)
Information provided by (Responsible Party): JHSPH Center for Clinical Trials
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00132691
  Purpose

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of standardized systemic therapy versus fluocinolone acetonide implant therapy for the treatment of severe cases of non-infectious intermediate uveitis, posterior uveitis, or panuveitis.


Condition Intervention Phase
Uveitis
Drug: fluocinolone acetonide intraocular implant
Drug: oral corticosteroid with immunosuppressive agents as needed
Phase IV

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial

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Further study details as provided by JHSPH Center for Clinical Trials:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • difference in visual acuity [ Time Frame: at two years of follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Retinal morphology / Intraocular inflammation / Potential ocular complications of uveitis and of therapy / Potential systemic complications of therapy / Adverse event reporting [ Time Frame: On-going ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Mortality / Cost-effectiveness / Quality of life [ Time Frame: On-going ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 255
Study Start Date: September 2005
Study Completion Date: December 2010
Primary Completion Date: December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 1
Immunosupressant medication implant
Drug: fluocinolone acetonide intraocular implant
RETISERT™ (fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal implant) 0.59 mg is a sterile implant designed to release fluocinolone acetonide locally to the posterior segment of the eye at a nominal initial rate of 0.6 μg/day, decreasing over the first month to a steady state between 0.3-0.4 μg/day over approximately 30 months.
Other Name: NDC 24208-416-01
Active Comparator: 2
Systemic corticosteroids with immunosuppressant drugs as needed
Drug: oral corticosteroid with immunosuppressive agents as needed
Prednisone
Other Names:
  • Permitted immunosuppressive agents:
  • - Alkylating agents
  • cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
  • chlorambacil
  • - Antimetabolities
  • azathioprine (Imuran)
  • azathioprine chlorambucil (Leukeran)
  • methotrexate (Rheumatrex and others)
  • mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept)
  • - T-cell inhibitors
  • cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune and other trade names)
  • tacrolimus
  • - Biologics
  • infliximab
  • daclizumab
  • other biologics

Detailed Description:

The MUST trial is a randomized controlled clinical trial comparing two treatments for patients with vision-threatening non-infectious intermediate uveitis, posterior uveitis, or panuveitis:

  • local therapy with fluocinolone acetonide intraocular implant in affected eyes; versus
  • standard therapy: systemic corticosteroid therapy supplemented, when indicated, by corticosteroid-sparing potent immuno-modulator therapy.

Study ophthalmologists, clinic coordinators, and patients will not be masked to treatment assignment. Masking will be applied to the determination of visual function at baseline, the six month visit, and thereafter . Patients will be followed until death, participant withdrawal, or a common study closeout. Patients will be seen at baseline, one month after randomization, three months after randomization, and every three months thereafter for data collection. Both ophthalmological and medical data will be collected to evaluate the outcomes of treatment of the uveitis, complications of the uveitis, and complications from therapy itself. Selected laboratory data related to the complications from systemic corticosteroid therapy will be collected.

The planned sample size of 250 patients, 125 per treatment group, is expected to give sufficient power to detect clinically important differences in visual acuity outcomes. Patients meeting the eligibility criteria detailed above will be enrolled at approximately 23 clinical centers in the United States, Australia and UK. Patients will be randomized on a 1:1 basis to one of the two treatment groups.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   13 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 13 years or older
  • Best-corrected visual acuity of hand motions or better in at least one eye with uveitis
  • Intraocular pressure 24 mm Hg or less in all eyes with uveitis

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inadequately controlled diabetes
  • Uncontrolled glaucoma
  • Advanced glaucomatous optic nerve injury
  • A history of scleritis; presence of an ocular toxoplasmosis scar.
  • HIV infection or other immunodeficiency disease for which corticosteroid therapy would be contraindicated according to best medical judgment
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00132691

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Sponsors and Collaborators
JHSPH Center for Clinical Trials
Investigators
Study Chair: Douglas Jabs, MD, MBA Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Study Chair: John Kempen, MD, PhD Scheie Eye Center, University of Pennsylvania
Study Director: Janet T Holbrook, PhD, MPH Director of Coordinating Cener, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Study Director: Michael Altaweel, MD Director of Fundus Photography Reading Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  More Information

Additional Information:
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Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: JHSPH Center for Clinical Trials
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00132691     History of Changes
Obsolete Identifiers: NCT00269698
Other Study ID Numbers: NEI-106, U10EY014660, 1U10EY014660-2, ISRCTN15396562
Study First Received: August 19, 2005
Last Updated: October 26, 2011
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by JHSPH Center for Clinical Trials:
uveitis
non-infectious intermediate uveitis
non-infectious posterior uveitis
non-infectious panuveitis

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Uveitis
Uveal Diseases
Eye Diseases
Alkylating Agents
Cyclophosphamide
Azathioprine
Immunosuppressive Agents
Mycophenolate mofetil
Fluocinolone Acetonide
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Antimetabolites
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antirheumatic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Myeloablative Agonists
Glucocorticoids
Hormones
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Anti-Inflammatory Agents

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