ABSTRACT
The authors propose a complex method for examining children with false myopia. The complex includes routine methods for detecting and evaluating the stability of spasm, measurement of the relative accommodation reserve, ophthalmic tone, and anteroposterior axis of the eye. The method allows differentiation between false and true myopia, evaluates its degree, and helps prescribe etiopathogenetic treatment for ruling out the transfer of false myopia into true (axial).
Subject(s)
Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological , Myopia/diagnosis , Accommodation, Ocular , Child , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Myopia/physiopathology , Refraction, Ocular , Visual AcuityABSTRACT
None of the numerous methods for optic and drug treatment of the accommodation cramp effectively arrests it without long tiresome training or atropine, which limits visual working capacity for a long time and therefore, precludes starting the treatment on an outpatient basis immediately. Use of an available, simple, and effective combined method for treating the accommodation cramp helped prevent true myopia in 94.3% of young children in the main group, whereas 38.3% children in the control group developed myopia.
