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.

Received: 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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Citation

Citation: Seraph Shi Kei Wu and Sunny Chi Lik Au. “Myopia". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 2.8 (2021): 48-49.

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