title: [A blinding orphan disease: high myopia].
abstract: High myopia is the fifth cause of legal blindness in France. Myopic blindness is somewhat neglected, however, because it is poorly understood and untreatable. Certain mechanisms of this visual handicap have been elucidated by the use of new imaging technologies, raising new therapeutic possibilities.
authors.affiliation: Unité de chirurgie vitréo-rétinienne, Hôtel-Dieu 1, place du Parvis Notre-Dame, 75181 Paris 04.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chauvaud
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D047728:Myopia, Degenerative / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D015422:Scleral Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*