title: [Transconjunctival electrostimulation of eye in pathogenetic therapy of progressive myopia].
abstract: Disorders of accommodation are acknowledged to contribute to the etiopathogenesis of myopia. A new method for treating this condition is proposed: Transconjunctival electroophthalmostimulation (TEOS). It was used in the treatment of 384 patients with progressive myopia. The treatment had a favorable impact on vision acuity and accommodation. The efficacy of treatment was the best in patients with myopia of up to 1.5 diopters; vision acuity in them increased by an average of 0.3 +/- 0.04, the accommodation volume by 2.23 +/- 0.29 diopters, and the relative accommodation reverse by 1.45 +/- 0.44 diopters. In medium and high myopia TEOS effect was less expressed as regards the vision acuity, whereas decreased accommodation virtually normalized; the subjective refraction reliably decreased (by 0.5 diopters) in all groups of examinees. Other parameters of static refraction were virtually unchanged by TEOS. Moreover, the rheographic coefficient increased from 1.59 +/- 0.66 to 2.89 +/- 0.66 and the temperature of the eyeball rose from 34.2 +/- 0.15 to 35.2 +/- 0.05 degrees C, which indicates activation of blood supply and metabolic processes under the effect of TEOS. Five-year follow-up of this cohort of patients showed the progress of myopia in just 15% of cases, versus 25% in the control group treated with drugs and accommodation training. The effect of treatment persists for one year, after which the treatment is to be repeated.
authors.affiliation: Central Military Research Aviation Hospital, Moscow.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Okovitov
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001831:Body Temperature; D002648:Child; D002924:Ciliary Body / Q000502:physiology; D003228:Conjunctiva; D018450:Disease Progression; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D009216:Myopia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Transkon'iunktival'naia 'elektrooftal'mostimuliatsiia v sisteme patogeneticheskogo lecheniia progressiruiushcheí blizorukosti.