Refractive State of the Newborn.
- Author:
Woong San CHOI
1
;
Jinhak LEE
;
Bong Leen CHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Birth Weight;
Emmetropia;
Female;
Humans;
Hyperopia;
Infant, Newborn*;
Male;
Myopia;
Refractive Errors;
Retinoscopy;
Tropicamide
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1988;29(4):659-662
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Refractions were performed in healthy 60 newborn babies, 31 males and 29 females, by retinoscopy after instillation of 1% tropicamide in order to investigate the distribution of refractive states of newborn babies. Average refractive error is +1.51 +/- 2.23D in male, +1.93 +/- 1.78D in female, and +1.17 +/- 2.03D in general. 72.5% of them were hypermetropia, 10.0% were emmetropia, and 12.5% were myopia. There was no significant difference according to sex, laterality, birth weight, and method of delivery(p>0.1).
