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Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses
Myopia is an important public health problem due to its prevalence and significant public health cost. Elevating levels of myopia increase the risk of vision impairment, and therefore, high myopia has become one of the main causes of untreatable vision loss throughout the world due to its irreversib...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30745799 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijms.30118 |
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author | Zhu, Qin Liu, Yongsong Tighe, Sean Zhu, Yingting Su, Xuanbo Lu, Fabing Hu, Min |
author_facet | Zhu, Qin Liu, Yongsong Tighe, Sean Zhu, Yingting Su, Xuanbo Lu, Fabing Hu, Min |
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description | Myopia is an important public health problem due to its prevalence and significant public health cost. Elevating levels of myopia increase the risk of vision impairment, and therefore, high myopia has become one of the main causes of untreatable vision loss throughout the world due to its irreversible complications. At present, many options for slowing progression of myopia have already been proposed and evaluated such as progressive addition of executive bifocal spectacle lenses, peripheral defocusing lenses, overnight orthokeratology, pharmacological agents such as atropine eye drops, and multifocal soft contact lenses (MFSCLs). Use of MFSCLs has especially increased in recent years due to the growing demand to slow myopia progression during patient's adolescent growth period to avoid pathological myopia in adulthood. Compared with the other traditional methods of controlling myopia, MFSCLs allow myopic patients to better maintain their clear visual quality and slow myopia progression. In this manuscript, we aim to review the basics of myopia, recent advances in contact lenses to control myopia with emphasis on MFSCLs, define the elements for proper MFSCL fittings (such as pupil size, aberrations, accommodation and centering), discuss the potential rebound effect after discontinuation of contact lenses, and future directions for improvements of contact lenses for the control of myopia. |
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spelling | pubmed-63675262019-02-11 Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses Zhu, Qin Liu, Yongsong Tighe, Sean Zhu, Yingting Su, Xuanbo Lu, Fabing Hu, Min Int J Med Sci Review Myopia is an important public health problem due to its prevalence and significant public health cost. Elevating levels of myopia increase the risk of vision impairment, and therefore, high myopia has become one of the main causes of untreatable vision loss throughout the world due to its irreversible complications. At present, many options for slowing progression of myopia have already been proposed and evaluated such as progressive addition of executive bifocal spectacle lenses, peripheral defocusing lenses, overnight orthokeratology, pharmacological agents such as atropine eye drops, and multifocal soft contact lenses (MFSCLs). Use of MFSCLs has especially increased in recent years due to the growing demand to slow myopia progression during patient's adolescent growth period to avoid pathological myopia in adulthood. Compared with the other traditional methods of controlling myopia, MFSCLs allow myopic patients to better maintain their clear visual quality and slow myopia progression. In this manuscript, we aim to review the basics of myopia, recent advances in contact lenses to control myopia with emphasis on MFSCLs, define the elements for proper MFSCL fittings (such as pupil size, aberrations, accommodation and centering), discuss the potential rebound effect after discontinuation of contact lenses, and future directions for improvements of contact lenses for the control of myopia. Ivyspring International Publisher 2019-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6367526/ /pubmed/30745799 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijms.30118 Text en © Ivyspring International Publisher This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). See http://ivyspring.com/terms for full terms and conditions. |
spellingShingle | Review Zhu, Qin Liu, Yongsong Tighe, Sean Zhu, Yingting Su, Xuanbo Lu, Fabing Hu, Min Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses |
title | Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses |
title_full | Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses |
title_fullStr | Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses |
title_full_unstemmed | Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses |
title_short | Retardation of Myopia Progression by Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses |
title_sort | retardation of myopia progression by multifocal soft contact lenses |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30745799 http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijms.30118 |
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