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High Myopia in Children

Possible Causes

Ocular disease
- ROP
- Infantile glaucoma
- Spherophakia
- CSNB
- Achromatopsia
Systemic Disease
- Down Syndrome
- Marfan syndrome
- Stickler syndrome
- Noonan syndrome
- Weill-Marchesani syndrome (associated with microspherophakia)
- Homocystinuria
Idiopathic high myopia
- Associated with myelinated nerve fiber layer

Resources

Flitcroft, I et al. Management and Investigation of High Myopia in Infants and Young Children. IOVS 2023;64(6):1-19