OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between axial length, myopia of the eye, and the severity of lens opacity at the time of cataract surgery. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed a consecutive series of 198 eyes of patients aged older than 50 years at Fukui University Hospital (Fukui, Japan) from June 2004 to December 2005. Patient age at the time of surgery, axial length, spherical equ...

PURPOSE To report the relationship between different optical ocular components and the influence of axial length on emmetropization. METHODS 109 young university students, divided into five groups, were enrolled in this study: emmetropes, hyperopes, low myopes, moderate myopes and high myopes. Intraocular parameters and topographic corneal analyses were performed by ultrasonography and videok...

Changes in the eye axial diameter were studied to assess the eye globe impact of conventional operation for retinal detachment. The study included 69 eyes in 69 patients operated on for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. There were 46.4% of men and 53.6% of women, mean age 52.7 (+/- 15.21) years. Results of preoperative and postoperative ultrasonographic measurement of axial diameter are presen...

The effect of myopic defocus on myopia progression was assessed in a two-year prospective study on 94 myopes aged 9-14 years, randomly allocated to an undercorrected group or a fully corrected control group. The 47 experimental subjects were blurred by approximately +0.75 D (blurring VA to 6/12), while the controls were fully corrected. Undercorrection produced more rapid myopia progression and...

It has been suggested that changes in the multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) responses in myopes are primarily due to the increased axial length that accompanies myopia development. We investigated the characteristics of mfERG responses between emmetropes and myopes and determined the contribution of axial length to the mfERG data in 30 subjects (10 emmetropes and 20 myopes) using VERIS I. Th...

Myopic individuals, especially those with severe myopia, are at higher-than-normal risk of cataract, glaucoma, retinal detachment and chorioretinal abnormalities. In addition, pathological myopia is a common irreversible cause of visual impairment and blindness. Our study demonstrates the effect of scleral crosslinking using riboflavin and ultraviolet-A radiation on the development of axial myo...

BACKGROUND In 2010, there were ~ 36 million migrant children under 18 y old in China. This study compared patterns of myopia prevalence and progression between migrant and resident children. METHODS Eight hundred forty-two migrant children from 2 migrant schools and 1081 from 2 local schools in Baoshan District, Shanghai, were randomly chosen. Baseline measurements were taken on children in g...

PURPOSE To compare the efficacy, safety and acceptability of a treatment group (Orthokeratology) to a control group (single vision Spectacles) on slowing axial elongation in children. METHODS We searched studies in MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library up to January 2015 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies. We pooled the mean differences between the Orthokerat...