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PURPOSE: To demonstrate longitudinal refractive changes of anisometropia children. METHODS: This retrospective study included patients (or children) with anisometropia ≥ 1 diopters (D) for 5 years who visited our hospital between January 2013 and December 2014 with patients having annual refraction test data from 5-years-old to 10-years-old. RESULTS: A total of 37 children satisfied the inclusion criteria. Twenty-one children had hyperopic anisometropia and 16 children had myopic anisometropia. All hyperopic anisometropia and 12 myopic anisometropia children who had unilateral amblyopia were treated with occlusion therapy. The mean anisometropia at 5 years of age was 3.02 D and in the 37 children, the final degree of anisometropia was not significantly different between the 5-year-old and 10-year-old patients. In the high anisometropia and low anisometropia groups and in the myopia and hyperopia groups, the final degree of anisometropia was not significantly different at 5 years of age versus 10 years of age. CONCLUSIONS: In patients with anisometropia, spherical equivalent values did not show a significant difference when comparing 5-year-old versus 10-year-old patients and changes in the spherical equivalent values of eyes from both groups progressed to the same degree even if there was anisometropia in myopic and hyperopic patients.
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Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Amblyopia , Anisometropia , Hyperopia , Myopia , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
AIM:To analyze the clinical significance of axial length, diopter and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in hyperopia children with anisometropia amblyopia. ·METHODS: From January 2015 to January 2017 in our hospital for treatment, 103 cases, all unilateral, were diagnosed as hyperopia anisometropia amblyopia. The eyes with amblyopia were as experimental group ( 103 eyes), another normal eye as control group (103 eyes). We took the detection with axial length, refraction, foveal thickness, corrected visual acuity, diopter and the average thickness of retinal nerve fiber layer. ·RESULTS: Differences in axial length and diopter and corrected visual acuity were statistically significant between the two groups (P0. 05). There was statistical significance difference on the foveal thickness (P0. 05 ). The positive correlation between diopter with nerve fiber layer thickness of foveal and around the optic disc were no statistically significant difference (P>0. 05). ·CONCLUSION:Retinal thickness of the fovea in the eye with hyperopic anisometropia amblyopia were thicker than those in normal eyes;the nerve fiber layer of around the optic disc was not significantly different between the amblyopic eyes and contralateral eyes. The refraction and axial length had no significant correlation with optic nerve fiber layer and macular foveal thickness.