Objective To evaluate the changes of intraocular pressure (IOP) in myopic children undergoing overnight orthokeratology treatment. Methods It was a retrospective case-series study. Orthokeratology was performed to correct the refractive errors of 303 eyes of 303 teenagers. The patients were divided into 3 groups: low-myopia, moderate-myopia, and high-myopia, based on the diopters. IOP, corneal curvature and refraction were taken respectively at pre-wear, l day and 7, 30, 90 days after orthokeratology. Data were analyzed by repeated-measures ANOVA tests. LSD corrections were performed to compare the differences in IOP if significant differences were found. Results The change of IOP became stable after 1-week orthokeratology treatment, and were significant decrease in IOP after treatment (F=51.75, P<0.01). Moderate and high myopia had an increase of 1.04 mmHg (t=-4.81, P<0.01) and 0.58 mmHg (t=-2.65, P<0.05) respectively in IOP at 1-day visit, and low myopia only showed a downward trend at the same time (t=0.57, P>0.05). Furthermore, the changes in diopters were positively correlated with those in IOP (r=0.131, P<0.05) 3 months post-treatment. The changes of IOP resulted by one unit change in diopter were significantly different among different degree of myopic group (F=3.57, P<0.05). With one unit change in diopter, the low-myopia teenagers showed significantly more reduction in IOP at 0.50 mmHg than moderate-myopia teenagers (t=-2.57, P<0.01). No significant differences were observed between low- and high-myopia groups (t=-1.86, P>0.05), moderate- and high-myopia groups (t=0.68, P>0.05). Conclusion Orthokeratology results a decrease in IOP measurements. The observed patterns of IOP changes may be caused cooperatively by the changes in corneal morphology and eye accommodation function.
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