COVID-19 became a global pandemic in 2020 and spurred governments to impose home confinement in many countries. Eye care practitioners were mostly spared the full brunt of the manifestations of ...
Here is an unusual case that CS shared with the Myopia Profile community involving a child with a unilateral coloboma and resultant vision impairment, with early myopia in the normally ...
When a child is only myopic in one eye, it is known as unilateral myopic ametropia. This is defined as the specific refractive state where an unequivocally myopic eye is ...
Can using atropine enhance the effect of orthokeratology? This meta-analysis of 5 studies involving 341 children analysed the effect of combining atropine with orthokeratology on axial length growth, compared to ...
Are combination treatments, like atropine and orthokeratology, more effective than monotherapy? Atropine is considered a first line treatment for myopia control, and we now know thanks to the Low-Concentration Atropine ...
Both orthokeratology (OK) lenses and low-concentration atropine are effective forms of myopia control.1,2 Could we expect a greater efficacy to control myopia if we combine the treatments? In this post, ...
First published: November 30, 2018 Updated: August 16, 2021 Atropine has been the apparent hero of myopia management since the 2006 publication of the ATOM (atropine for the treatment of ...
High myopes have 5-6 times higher risk of developing retinal detachments compared to low myopes.1 They also happen in adult myopes, right? Wrong! Retinal detachments can happen at any age, ...
The decision to commence a myopia control treatment is simple when the parent asks for it, seeing rapid progression in their children as concerning. When getting started, how to do ...
The MiSight® 1 day contact lenses consist of concentric rings with alternating treatment and correction zones. The treatment zones provides 2D of defocus. Does this amount to an ‘add’ in ...
