Publications by authors named "Joey Chung"
Effect of childhood atropine treatment on adult choroidal thickness using sequential deep learning-enabled segmentation.
Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila)
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to measure choroidal thickness in adults who underwent childhood atropine treatment for myopia using a deep learning segmentation method.
- It found that 77.7% of the participants received atropine, which was linked to a choroid thickness increase of 20-40 μm in specific regions of the eye, after accounting for age and sex.
- The research also indicated a relationship between greater central choroidal thickness and a lower incidence of tessellated fundus, implying childhood atropine exposure may have lasting effects on eye structure.
Background: Myopia affects 1.4 billion individuals worldwide. Notably, there is increasing evidence that choroidal thickness plays an important role in myopia and risk of developing myopia-related conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Clinical trial results of topical atropine eye drops for childhood myopia control have shown inconsistent outcomes across short-term studies, with little long-term safety or other outcomes reported.
Objective: To report the long-term safety and outcomes of topical atropine for childhood myopia control.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This prospective, double-masked observational study of the Atropine for the Treatment of Myopia (ATOM) 1 and ATOM2 randomized clinical trials took place at 2 single centers and included adults reviewed in 2021 through 2022 from the ATOM1 study (atropine 1% vs placebo; 1999 through 2003) and the ATOM2 study (atropine 0.
Background: The aetiology of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) has been widely discussed in literature, but little is known about patients' self-belief of their TMD aetiology.
Objective: For six categories of self-believed aetiology of the TMD complaint (viz., occlusal factors, physical trauma, emotional stress, deep pain input, parafunctions and unknown), associations with physical, psychological and socio-demographic predictors were assessed.