Natural history of glaucomatous optic neuropathy in highly myopic Chinese: study protocol for a registry cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Myopic maculopathy and glaucoma belong to the most common causes of irreversible blindness worldwide and, having an ocular axial elongation as one of their main risk factors, can occur together. The detection of glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) in highly myopic eyes is clinically and technically difficult, and there is no information available, neither about the natural course of GON or about the course of GON under intraocular pressure-lowering therapy. We therefore designed this study to explore the natural course of GON in highly myopic eyes.

Methods and analysis

In this single-centred longitudinal registry cohort study, 813 highly myopic individuals will be recruited and undergo detailed ophthalmic examinations. High myopia is defined by a myopic refracti

SUBMITTER: Song Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780524 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature