[Peripheral refraction and retinal contour in children with myopia by results of refractometry and partial coherence...

To determine the posterior pole contour of the eye based on the relative peripheral refractive error and relative eye length.

A parallel study was performed, which enrolled 38 children (76 eyes) with myopia from -1.25 to -10.82 diopters. The patients underwent peripheral refraction assessment with WR-5100K Binocular Auto Refractometer ("Grand Seiko", Japan) and partial coherence tomography with IOLMaster ("Carl Zeiss", Germany) for the relative eye length in areas located 15 and 30 degrees nasal and temporal from the central fovea along the horizontal meridian.

In general, refractometry and interferometry showed high coincidence of defocus signs and values for the areas located 15 and 30 degrees nasal as well as 15 degrees temporal from the fovea. However, in 41% of patients defocus signs determined by the two methods mismatched in one or more areas. Most of the mismatch cases were mild myopia.

We suppose that such a mismatch is caused by optical peculiarities of the anterior eye segment that have an impact on refractometry results.