Myopia Progression

Children with monocular myopia should wear glasses to delay myopia progression resulting from abnormal accommodative function and unbalanced input of binocular visual signals, according to researchers.

Mandatory online schooling and confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated myopia in school-aged children in Puerto Rico, according to a review published in Optometry and Vision Science.

Myopia continued to progress at a rate of –0.25 D per year in a small proportion of young adults, according to a study published in Optometry and Vision Science.

NEW ORLEANS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Mark A. Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, FAAO, discussed the use of atropine for myopia control in the LAMP study.

WASHINGTON — CooperVision’s MiSight daily disposable soft contact lenses had a therapeutic effect after stopping, then restarting lens wear in children whose myopia was progressing, according to Felicia Timmermann, OD, MS, FAAO.

In this video from the virtual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Ewa Mrukwa-Kominek, MD, PhD, warns against the use of different biometers when monitoring patients over time.

Home confinement and distance learning significantly increased the number of hospital visits for myopia at a university hospital in Istanbul, although no correlation was found with myopia progression.

Noel A. Brennan, MScOptom, PhD, FAAO, presented a poster at this year’s ARVO virtual meeting that focused on the increasing prevalence of high myopia even among adults that may affect disease rates in the near future.

Spectacle lenses with aspheric lenslets, also known as the Essilor Stellest lenses, were found to significantly slow myopia progression and axial elongation in children, according to results from a 2-year clinical trial presented at the virtual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

Mark A. Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, FAAO, FARVO, presented a poster at this year’s ARVO virtual meeting focused on the link between growing rates of myopia and projected visual impairment in the U.S.