title: [Retrospective evaluation of eyes with high progressive myopia in children and youth ten years after Snyder and Thompson's scleroplasty].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Of the study was, to assess the safety and efficiency of scleral reinforcement after Snyder and Thompson surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  The scleroplasty was performed on 129 eyes of 75 children with progressive myopia from 6 to 10 years of age. The control study group included 40 eyes of 25 children with similar age, mean eyeball axial length and refraction. In the control study group scleroplasty was not performed. The main indication criteria for surgery included: severe myopia more than -6.0 D, and the increase in refraction error more than -1.0 D per year. We evaluated the eyeball axial length in all subjects, before time of surgery and ten years after surgery, using Ultrasound Alcon Imaging System. The visual acuity, tonometry, visual field were evaluated as well.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the study group the mean eyeball axial length measured before surgery was 25.95 mm +/- 0.62 mm. Ten years after surgery the length of the eyeball was 26.97 mm +/- 0.64 mm. The average increase was 1.03 mm +/- 0.29 mm. In the control group, at the time when study group children were operated, the mean eyeball axial length was 25.91 mm +/- 0.48 mm, and ten years later it was 28.06 mm +/- 0.59 mm. The average increase in the eyeball length was 2.13 mm +/- 0.3 mm. There was statistically significant difference between the eyeball axial length progression in the study group and the control group, where surgery was not performed. In the study group no serious complications after surgery were reported.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Scleral reinforcement is an effective and safe surgery, that can stabilize the progression of severe myopia in children.
authors.affiliation: I Katedry i Kliniki Okulistyki Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej w Katowicach.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Formińska-Kapuścik
authors.forename: Bozena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kamińska-Olechnowicz
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sośnierz-Jupowiecka
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kinasz
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ochalik
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Domańska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016639:Scleroplasty / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity