PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | myopia |
| Phenotype | C0155135|corneal ectasia |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 21178694 | Objectives: to determine if the axial length and its components are significantly different between a keratoconic eye and an emmetropic eye and also to determine if the degree of corneal ectasia is associated with axial myopia in a keratoconic eye. |
| PubMedID- 24298221 | Clinically, this corneal ectasia leads to myopia and irregular astigmatism, and in severe cases, ruptures in descemet's membrane may occur, resulting in corneal edema and scarring [3]. |
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