By M. Cristina Leske, Suh-Yuh Wu, Barbara Nemesure, Leslie Hyman (auth.), Luke L.-K. Lin M.D., Ph.D., Yung-Feng Shih M.D., Por T. Hung M.D. (eds.)
The occurrence of myopia maintains its swift upward thrust world wide, and even though the mechanism has no longer been totally clarified, there was an important bring up in wisdom of the situation in recent times. very important questions about myopia are being posed through researchers throughout a vast spectrum of disciplinesfrom psychology to molecular biology, from corneal surgical procedure to retinal body structure, and from genetics to experimental optics. The 7th foreign convention on Myopia, held in Taipei in November 1998, supplied a discussion board for researchers and practitioners to make displays and perform discussions in their most up-to-date findings. Many medical professionals from Asian international locations, the place the occurrence of myopia is especially excessive, suggested the result of their paintings. Myopia Updates II offers the newest info on epidemiology, probability components, problems, experimentation, and remedy, and is a helpful source for all who're attracted to myopia and ocular growth.
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Danish colleagues would thus record such mixed cases as glaucoma and primarily refer to myopia only in case of unambiguous posterior pole lesions combined with a normal eye pressure. It should be mentioned also that in contrast to our records of poor sight in children our registration of adult visual impairment is incomplete. It is on a voluntary basis, and some poor vision subjects are reluctant to enter the national register when given the option [18,20]. It is established [2,3,5] that eventually the vascularity of the choriocapillaris gets poorer in eyes with myopia, and the "health buffer" is reduced.
0rnm. In terms of the degree of myopia, 12 cases of lattice degeneration were found in eyes of greater than 3 diopters; no cases were found in emrnetropic and hyperopic eyes or in highly myopic eyes of greater than I 0 diopters. In 16 cases of lattice degeneration, 2 with marked lattice degeneration had photopsia and entopsia, and 14 were asymptomatic. If a posterior vitreous detachment occurs, myopic eyes are more likely to develop retinal break than non-myopic eyes. Linder [18] and Jaffe [19] studied a total of 199 eyes with signs and symptoms of acute vitreous separation.
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