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Paediatric ophthalmology
Five-year results of atropine 0.01% efficacy in the myopia control in a European population
  1. Manuel Moriche-Carretero1,2,
  2. Remedios Revilla-Amores1,
  3. Ana Gutiérrez-Blanco3,
  4. Francisco Javier Moreno-Morillo1,
  5. Clara Martinez-Perez4,
  6. Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena4,5,
  7. Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina5
  1. 1 Infanta Sofia University Hospital, San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid), Spain
  2. 2 Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  3. 3 Instituto Ocular Europeo, Madrid, Spain
  4. 4 ISEC LISBOA - Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, Lisboa, Portugal
  5. 5 Department of Optometry and Vision, Complutense University of Madrid. Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Madrid, Spain
  1. Correspondence to Dr Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina, Optometry and Vision, Complutense University of Madrid Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Madrid 28037, Spain; cristina_alvarez{at}ucm.es

Abstract

Aims To evaluate the efficacy and safety of 0.01% atropine eye-drops in controlling myopia progression over 5 years.

Methods Experimental, analytical, prospective, randomised and longitudinal study, in 361 right eyes from 361 children randomised into the control group (177 eyes without treatment) and treatment group (184 eyes with 0.01% atropine eye-drops). Children assigned to the treatment group used 0.01% atropine once a day every night and the control group’s children did not use any treatment or placebo. All the subjects completed an eye examination every 6 months for the 5 years of follow-up. The examination included subjective and objective refraction with cycloplegia, axial length (AL), keratometry and anterior chamber depth (ACD) to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. It also included the anterior and posterior pole examination to evaluate the safety of the treatment.

Results The SE increased −0.63±0.42D in children after 5 years of treatment with 0.01% atropine, while in the control group the increase was −0.92±0.56D. AL increased 0.26±0.28 mm in the treatment group compared with 0.49±0.34 mm in the control group. Atropine 0.01% showed an efficacy of 31.5% and 46.9% in the control of the SE and AL increase, respectively. ACD and keratometry did not have significant changes between groups.

Conclusions Atropine 0.01% is effective in slowing myopia progression in a European population. There were no side effects after 5 years of 0.01% atropine.

  • Child health (paediatrics)
  • Epidemiology

Data availability statement

Data are available on reasonable request. No data are available.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo-2022-322808

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    • Contributors MM-C, MAS-T, CA-P and RR-A researched literature and conceived the study. MM-C was involved in protocol development, gaining ethical approval. MM-C, FJM-M and AG-B were involved in the patient recruitment and examinations. CM-P, MAS-T and CA-P were involved in the data analysis. CM-P and CA-P wrote the first draft of the manuscript. MM-C is responsible for the overall content as guarantor. All authors reviewed and edited the manuscript and approved the final version of the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.