Natural Course of Refractive Error in Congenital Stationary Night Blindness: Implications for Myopia Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

A range of pharmacological and optical therapies are being studied and implemented in children with myopia to reduce the progression of myopia. At present, the efficacy of these myopia reduction treatments in children with underlying inherited retinal disorders (IRDs) is largely unknown. To evaluate this efficacy, it is essential to first understand the natural progression of myopia within each distinct underlying IRD. We investigated the natural course of refractive error throughout childhood in patients with congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) of the Schubert-Bornschein type.

Methods

We retrospectively assessed a total of 295 refraction measurements in 127 patients with CSNB (48 with "complete" CSNB [CSNB1] and 79 with "incomplete" CSNB [CSNB2]) at differe

SUBMITTER: Poels MMF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11620013 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature