Effect of peripheral vision control technology in the development of juvenile myopia

• Main Authors: Jin-Ou Huang, Xiao-Hong Wei, undefined
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO PRESS) 2015-02-01
• Series: Guoji Yanke Zazhi
• Subjects: myopia; peripheral vision; peripheral retina; hypermetropic defocus; juveniles
• Online Access: http://ies.ijo.cn/cn_publish/2015/2/201502058.pdf

AIM:To investigate the effect of peripheral vision control technology for delaying the development of juvenile myopia.<p>METHODS: A total of ninty-nine cases of 12～18 year-old myopic patients were randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group was peripheral vision control technology group whose members wore the special lenses which can help correct the hypermetropic defocus of peripheral retina. The other was control group whose members wore ordinary monofocal lenses. All the subjects needed to accept re-examination every 3mo and be recorded the data of dioptre, corneal curvature and axial length.<p>RESULTS: After 18mo, the dioptre and axial length of two groups had increased in varying degree. But the data's different quantity of the corneal curvature in each group had no statistical significance(<i>P</i>>0.05). Themyopia deepen quantity in experimental group was -0.65±0.65D and its axial growth was 0.23±0.22mm, and the myopia deepen quantity in control group was -1.17±0.50D and its axial growth was 0.41±0.17mm. Under the circumstance of valid data, the increment of myopia and axial length in experimental group was lower than that in control group(<i>P</i><0.05).<p>CONCLUSION: Peripheral vision control technology can delay the development of juvenile myopia effectively.