The use of cycloplegic agents may be employed in examining myopic children to ensure the most accurate refraction possible.1 What does a cycloplegic agent do to binocular vision function? Typically, ...
What is medication compounding? Most medications are commercially manufactured, or mass produced, where that drug has been approved by a country's regulatory body (such as the FDA in the United ...
Low-concentration atropine is not commercially available in most countries at present. Hence, prescriptions for low-concentration atropine drops need to be compounded for each individual patient. Can the efficacy of compounded ...
What level of intervention is ideal for a pre-myopic child? What is the youngest age suitable for atropine treatment? This case involves a 3-year-old hyperopic and astigmatic child who has ...
Paper title: Three-Year Clinical Trial of Low-Concentration Atropine for Myopia Progression Study: Continued Versus Washout: Phase 3 Report Authors: Jason C Yam, Xiu Juan Zhang, Yuzhou Zhang, Yu Meng Wang, ...
Paper title: The Efficacy of Atropine Combined With Orthokeratology in Slowing Axial Elongation of Myopia Children: A Meta-Analysis Authors: Canran Gao, Shuling Wan, Yuting Zhang, Jing Han Date: 2021 Reference: Gao ...
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 ...
