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More financial, human capital needs to be invested to reduce burden of high myopia
In the early 1980s, I became interested in the surgical treatment of myopia as a surgeon in the Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy study. In this study, we were treating patients with low to moderate myopia. While there is room for disagreement, I categorize –0.125 D to –3 D as low myopia, –3.125 D to –6 D as moderate myopia and over –6 D as high myopia. Going all the way back to Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, myopia over –6 D has been considered “pathologic myopia,” and these are the patients (Read more...)