Clinical Advances in the Management of Myopia and Its Complications
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Ophthalmology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 170
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Journal of Clinical Medicine editorial team, I am delighted to present the Special Issue “Clinical Advances in the Management of Myopia and Its Complications”.
Of the 8 billion people in the global population, around 30% have myopia—around 2.5 billion people. High myopia affects over 400 million. Eye care practitioners worldwide see the impact of this development, with adults of working age and older suffering from sight-threatening complications and irreversible sight loss with devastating effects on quality of life. At the same time, practitioners providing care for children and teenagers see increasing numbers of young children with early onset and fast-progressing myopia. Environmental and behavioural changes—urbanisation and the ever-increasing use of near-work and screens—appears to drive an increase in prevalence, but is there a way to reverse these developments? Refractive errors are a WHO priority eye disease, and worldwide, efforts are underway to raise awareness and reduce the risk of myopia onset and progression.
This Special Issue collates original high-quality articles along the significant axes of the myopia discussion:
- Myopia management across people’s lives: from preschoolers to schoolchildren, adolescents, young adults and adults;
- The management of myopia at different levels of severity, from pre-myopia through low to high, pathological and syndromic myopia;
- The diagnosis, monitoring and interventions to treat myopia-associated complications such as retinal breaks and detachments, myopic maculopathy and myopic optic neuropathy.
Dr. Annegret Dahlmann-Noor
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- myopia
- pre-myopia
- high myopia
- pathological myopia
- syndromic myopia
- child
- adolescent
- young adult
- adult
- myopic maculopathy
- myopic macular degeneration
- retinal break
- retinal tear
- retinal detachment
- myopic optic neuropathy
