Research Article

Long-Term Natural Course of Pathologic Myopia in Chinese Patients

Table 3

Comparison of clinical characteristics between bilateral and unilateral pathological myopia in children at the initial visit.

Unilateral PM (11 eyes of 11 children)Bilateral PM (20 eyes of 10 children) value

Median age at initial examination (yrs)5.58.90.1286
Median SE (D)−7.25−9.190.0630
Median axial length (mm)25.9426.530.1795
Median UCVA at initial visit (logMAR)1.050.700.0385
Median UCVA at final visit (logMAR)0.670.600.772
Follow-up (range) (yrs)3.93.80.5356

yrs: years; SE: spherical equivalent; PM: pathological myopia; UCVA: uncorrected visual acuity.