Refractive Error Change and Overminus Lens Therapy for Childhood Intermittent Exotropia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Increased myopic shift was found to be associated with 1 year of overminus spectacle treatment for children with intermittent exotropia (IXT). Persistence of myopic shift after discontinuing overminus spectacles is unknown.

Objective

To compare refractive error change over 3 years in children with IXT originally treated with overminus vs nonoverminus spectacles.

Design, setting, and participants

This study was an 18-month extension of the Trial of Overminus Spectacle Therapy for Intermittent Exotropia cohort, which previously randomized children aged 3 to 10 years with IXT and baseline spherical equivalent refractive error (SER) between -6.00 diopters (D) and 1.00 D to overminus spectacles (-2.50 D for 12 months, -1.25 D for 3 months, and nonoverminus for 3

SUBMITTER: Writing Committee for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10958385 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature