Developmental changes in accommodation evidenced by an ultrabiomicroscopy procedure in patients of different ages

We demonstrate that changes in the behaviour of the contractile ciliary muscle accompanied by augmented rigidity of the lens are the most important aspects in the loss of accommodation. With ultrabiomicroscopy (UBM), we demonstrated that the performance of the ciliary muscle is diminished and accomp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Medical hypothesis, discovery and innovation in ophthalmology discovery and innovation in ophthalmology, 2013-01, Vol.2 (1), p.8-13
Main Authors: Benozzi, Giovanna, Leiro, Juliana, Facal, Sonia, Perez, Cristian, Benozzi, Jorge, Orman, Betina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Original
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:We demonstrate that changes in the behaviour of the contractile ciliary muscle accompanied by augmented rigidity of the lens are the most important aspects in the loss of accommodation. With ultrabiomicroscopy (UBM), we demonstrated that the performance of the ciliary muscle is diminished and accompanied by rigidity of the lens. Both lens thickness and trabecular-ciliary process distance (TCPD) were the parameters that showed major alterations with the loss of accommodation in patients of different ages. The results indicated that the differences between these parameters in farsightedness and nearsightedness in the different groups of patients were positively correlated.
ISSN:2322-4436
2322-3219