Axial Myopia in Congenital PtosisAn Animal Model
作者:
John Langford,
John Linberg,
William Blaylock,
Gung-Mei Chao,
期刊:
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
(OVID Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 14,
issue 4
页码: 261-265
ISSN:0740-9303
年代: 1998
出版商: OVID
关键词: Emmetropization;Congenital;Ptosis;Myopia.
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Summary:Congenital ptosis in humans has been associated with anisometropia, myopia, astigmatism, and amblyopia. Scientific evidence has shown that visual deprivation causes axial myopia in animals. This study using chicks was undertaken to investigate an animal model of congenital ptosis and the effects of lid position on ocular development. Eyelid ptosis was surgically induced in one eye each of white leghorn chickens within 48 hours after hatching. The chicks were raised under natural diurnal lighting. Thirty days after inducing ptosis, the chicks were killed and their eyes enucleated and photographed in a sagittal view. Computerized image analysis was used to measure the size of the globe along five axes. Globe size was significantly greater in the superior part of eyes with ptosis compared with control eyes. No other measurement differences were significant (p < 0.01). Thus, this study demonstrates that regional axial myopia is induced by eyelid ptosis in chicks.
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