TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reem Hesham Fathallah Elsheikh
AU  - Amanne Feisal Esmael , 
AU  - Mahmoud Mohamed Soliman, 
AU  - Noha Mahmoud Khalil , 
TI  - Central Corneal Thickness  and  Keratometric readings and their relationship to Myopia in Young Egyptian Adults / 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Reem Hesham Fathallah Elsheikh , 
KW  - Keratometric readings
KW  - Myopia in Young Egyptian Adults
KW  - Thickness
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Ophthalmology; Issued also as CD
N2  - Angle Glaucoma (POAG). In addition, severe myopes show significant  visual field changes in POAG. Also, decreased central corneal thickness (CCT) was found to be a  risk factor for progression of ocular hypertension to POAG in the ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Moreover, decreased central corneal thickness forms an additional risk factor for the development of POAG. Thus, both myopia and decreased CCT are considered risk factors for the development of POAG. Accordingly, correlation of the degree of myopia and the CCT may provide an explanation of the higher incidence of development and progression of glaucoma in myopic individuals. (Chen et al., 2014) With the increasing incidence of myopia, refractive surgery such as laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) has become popular. When undertaking such surgery, the central corneal thickness (CCT) is one of the important factors that should be taken into consideration, leaving the patient a sufficient residual corneal bed to prevent the development of post-operative ectasia. Studies that have attempted to investigate the effect of refractive errors on CCT have reported conflicting results. One study showed no correlation between the central corneal thickness and the degree of myopia
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