Research progress on choroidal thickness changes and related factors of secretive high myopia

Abstract

High myopia is a serious eye disease that jeopardizes the visual function of children because of the irreversible changes it caused to the fundus of the eye. High myopia needs to be detected, diagnosed and treated as early as possible, if not intervened in time, it may cause further aggravation or even blindness. However, screening for myopia often encounters the situation that children with low myopia at first who are found to have high myopia fundus changes by further examinations, and these insidious high myopia changes are easily overlooked in the diagnostic process. The study aims to summarize the literatures on choroidal thickness changes and their influencing factors in myopia children, which in order to provide relevant evidence for clinical studies in children with secretive high myopia.

Keywords

• secretive
• high myopia
• choroidal thickness
• children
• enhanced depth imaging spectral-domian optical coherence tomography