The prevalence of myopia has markedly increased in East and Southeast Asia, and
pathologic consequences of myopia, including myopic maculopathy and high myopia …

Myopia has been predicted to affect approximately 50% of the world's population based on
trending myopia prevalence figures. Critical to minimizing the associated adverse visual …

Microbial keratitis is a potentially blinding condition that must be treated emergently to
preserve vision. Although long recognized as a significant cause of corneal blindness, our …

Myopia is not a simple refractive error, but an eyesight-threatening disease. There is a high
prevalence of myopia, 80% to 90%, in young adults in East Asia; myopia has become the …

Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines are developed by the Academy's H. Dunbar Hoskins
Jr., MD Center for Quality Eye Care without any external financial support. Authors and …

Purpose To review the published evidence to evaluate the ability of orthokeratology (Ortho-
K) treatment to reduce myopic progression in children and adolescents compared with the …

Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa eye infections often becomes a challenge due to the
ability of this bacterium to be resistant to antibiotics via intrinsic and acquired mechanisms …

Purpose There is increasing interest in fitting children with soft contact lenses. This review
collates data from a range of studies to estimate the incidence of complications, specifically …

Overnight orthokeratology lenses are approved in countries all over the world for the
temporary reduction in myopia, and recently, one lens design has received regulatory …

Refractive error (ametropia) is present when parallel rays of light entering the
nonaccommodating eye do not focus on the retina. The visual effect is a blurred image …