FREQUENCY OF DETECTION OF PERIPHERAL VITREOCHORIORETINAL DYSTROPHIES AMONG NSMU STUDENTS WITH VARIOUS DEGREES OF MYOPIA

Abstract

Peripheral chorioretinal dystrophies (PCRD), common among young patients, pose a serious risk in the development of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and, subsequently, blindness. This study presents the data of a survey and an ophthalmological examination of 30 students of the Novosibirsk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia regarding this pathology, its association with gender, length of the anteroposterior segment of eyeball and the degree of myopic refraction was revealed. Of the 30 students examined, 17 (21 eyes) were diagnosed with PCRD, of which 9 were female (53%) and 8 male (47%), and rhegmatogenous dystrophies were more common in the superior temporal and inferior temporal quadrants. The infero-nasal sector often remained intact. Contrary to expectations, PCRD was detected among 2/3 of students with low myopia, half of students with moderate myopia and half — with high myopia, as well as in the control group of emmetropes, which makes us reconsider the issue of the etiology of the disease and search for other leading predisposing factors, in addition to high myopia.