Third International Conference on Myopia Copenhagen, August 24-27, 1980

Session I. Epidemiology of myopia.- Proportion of myopia in visual screening of school children.- The distribution of myopia in man and monkey.- Study of the visual acuity and refraction of the Yami on Botel Tobago Island (Lan-Yu).- Refraction in humans from birth to five years.- Long-term follow-up studies of myopia.- The onset and progression of myopia in Danish school children.- Session II. Genetic and environmental factors in myopia.- Nearwork and familial resemblances in ocular refraction: A populationst sudy in Newfoundland.- Inbreeding effects on ocular refraction: Findings from Western Newfoundland.- Secular change in anterior chamber depth, a refractive component of high heritability.- Session III. Oculometry in myopia.- Changes in refraction and eye size during adolescence. With special reference to the influence of low birth weight.- Oculometric findings in myopia.- The aetiology of myopia as considered from the differences in the refractive components of the right and left eyes.- Refractive components in aniso- and isometropia. An oculometric study (by ultrasonography and keratometry).- Session IV. Accommodation and other factors in myopia pathogenesis.- Criticism of various accommodogeneous theories on school myopia. Judging from explanation on emmetropization.- Accommodation and juvenile myopia. Some findings in Danish material around the age of 18 years.- Myopia or expansion glaucoma.- Distensability of the young eye. Considerations based on ultrasound examination of eyes with previous trauma.- Session V. Other clinical investigations in myopia.- Myopia and scleral stress.- A study on the effect of some steroid hormones in degenerative myopia.- The hemodynamics of the myopic eye: Rheo-oculographic findings.- Calcium, chromium, protein, sugar and accommodation in myopia.- Elevation of intraocular pressure with daily sustained closework stimulus to accommodation lowered tissue chromium and dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C).- The relationship between refractive error and scores on the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory.- Session VI. Experimental studies, laboratory myopia.- Myopia and the extraocular muscles.- Intraocular pressure dynamics associated with accommodation.- A study of experimental myopia after encircling operation.- Atropine affects lid-suture myopia development. Experimental studies of chronic atropinization in tree shrews.- Experimental visual deprivation and myopia.- Role of accommodation and developmental aspects of experimental myopia in chicks.- Session VII. Complications in high myopia.- The natural history of posterior staphyloma development.- Natural history of Fuchs' spot: a long-term follow-up study.- Diffuse choroidal atrophies and high myopia.- Nasal myopia.- Clinical features in high myopia. A 10-year follow-up of a representative sample of young adults.- Session VIII. On prophylaxis and treatment of myopia.- Treatment of myopia. Results and clinical findings.- The arrest and prophylaxis of expansion glaucoma (myopia).