Dr. JITENDRA NENUMAL JETHANI

Abstract

Low concentration atropine (0.01%) (LCA) is used for treatment of progression of myopia in children. We did a study to find out the effect of LCA on higher order aberration in children.

A shack-hartmann wavefront aberrometer (VIsionix, Luneau, France) was used to assess internal and total aberration. A total of 14 children were enrolled for the study. All children instilled the drops regularly in both the eyes for a period of one month once a day. The mean age was 8.1 +/- 2.4 years. The mean spherical component of the myopia for -3.38 +/- 1.2 D (n=28 eyes).

Mean preatropine eye drops HOA, RMS and tetrafoil (Z4) was 0.07+/- 0.05 microns , 1.6 +/- 0.7 microns and 0.005 +/- 0.02 microns and postatropine was 0.1 +/- 0.1 microns, 1.5 +/- 0.6 microns and 0.004 +/- 0.02 microns respectively. A student t test to compare the pre and postatropine data and was found to be statistically insignificant.

We conclude that the LCA doesn’t induce higher order aberrations in children with myopia.