Myopia
Seraph Shi Kei Wu1 and Sunny Chi Lik Au2*
1LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2Department of Ophthalmology, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China
*Corresponding Author: Sunny Chi Lik Au, Department of Ophthalmology, Lo Ka Chow Memorial Ophthalmic Centre, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
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June 27, 2021; Published: July 17, 2021
Keywords: Myopia; Myopic Maculopathy; Staphyloma; Atropine
Affecting all ages, myopia is considered as a global epidemic [1] with particular prevalence in Asian countries [2]. Despite the vision is correctable simply by glasses or with more advanced refractive surgeries [3], myopic patients do suffer from irreversible structural changes of the eyeball, including the retina [4], macula [5] (Figure 1), choroid [6] and sclera [7] (Figure 2). These changes are the culprits for blinding myopic complications in adulthood [8] such as retinal detachment, myopic maculopathy and choroidal neovascularization.
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