PURPOSE To investigate retrospectively, based on routine clinical records in an optometric office, the effect of refractive under-correction of the myopic spectacle prescription on myopic progression in children and young adults. METHODS Patient records of children and young-adult myopes in a private optometric practice in Glendale, Arizona, USA, were initially reviewed to identify those that...

METHODS. A population-based survey examined 3654 people aged 49 years or older, 82% of whom were permanent residents in an area west of Sydney, Australia. Participants had a detailed eye examination, including standardized refraction and stereo macular photographs. ARM was diagnosed from blinded photographic grading. Autorefractor measurements and subjective refraction were used to assess SEq r...

AIM To determine reproducibility and accuracy of the Nikon Retinomax autorefractor when used with children who were made cycloplegic. METHODS Autorefraction and retinoscopy or subjectively refined retinoscopy (where, under the patient's direction, the refraction was varied until the best visual acuity was achieved) were performed on the right eye of 47 children, age 11-93 months. Autorefracti...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of two non-surgical interventions of vision improvement in children. METHODS A prospective, randomized, pilot study to compare fogging method and the use of head mounted 3D display. Subjects were children, between 5 to 15 years old, with normal best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and up to -3D myopia. Subjects played a video game as near point work, and receiv...

PURPOSE To determine the impact of higher-order monochromatic aberrations on lower-order subjective sphero-cylindrical refractions. METHODS Computationally-aberrated, monochromatic Sloan letters were presented on a high luminance display that was viewed by an observer through a 2.5mm pupil. Through-focus visual acuity (VA) was determined in the presence of spherical aberration (Z40) at three ...

PURPOSE To compare the results from manifest refraction using trial lenses and a standard visual acuity protocol to results from autorefraction for obtaining refractive error and best corrected visual acuity in patients enrolled in a randomized clinical trial. METHODS During a 4-month period, 29 patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV), who were enrolled in the Submacular Su...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical utility of spherocylindrical automated refraction (AR) compared with subjective manifest refraction (MR) after cataract surgery with implantation of ReZoom refractive multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) (Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.). SETTING Private Practice. METHODS This prospective nonrandomized interventional study consisted of 72 patients with bilater...