Clinically Significant Axial Shortening in Myopic Children After Repeated Low-Level Red Light Therapy: A Retrospective Multicenter Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Myopia is recognized as a progressive eye disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency and associated factors of clinically significant axial length (AL) shortening among myopic children following repeated low-level red light (RLRL) therapy.

Methods

The clinical data that were collected for the myopic children aged 3-17 years who received an RLRL therapy delivered by home-use desktop light device that emitted light at 650 nm for at least 1 year, were reviewed. The clinical data included AL, spherical equivalent refraction (SER), and visual acuity measured at baseline and follow-up. The primary outcomes were frequency of AL shortening of > 0.05 mm, > 0.10 mm, and > 0.20 mm per year, and associated factors of AL shortening per year.

Results

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10011348 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature