Objective: To evaluate the clinical effect of controlling myopia and correcting anisometropia by monocular orthokeratology in anisometropic children. Methods: In this retrospective, self-controlled, clinical study, 40 anisometropic children, aged 9 to 15 years, who wore an orthokeratology lens in only one eye were enrolled from January 2014 to December 2016, and followed for about 1 year. The eyes with an orthokeratology lens had a mean spherical equivalent refraction of -2.51 ± 0.95 diopter (D), and
fellow eyes without a lens had a refraction of 0.10 ± 0.52 D. The average level of anisometropia was 2.61 ± 1.04 D, ranging from 1.00 to 4.38 D. During the follow-up period, we measured changes in binocular visual acuity, spherical equivalent refraction, ocular axial length, anterior chamber depth, and corneal topography parameters. The data were analyzed by paired t-tests and Pearson correlation analysis. Results: After 1 year of wearing an orthokeratology lens, the interocular difference in visual acuity (log minimum angle of resolution) between the treated and untreated eyes decreased from 0.77 ± 0.29 to 0.17 ± 0.22 (t=-15.865, P<0.001). Other interocular differences between the treated and untreated fellow eyes included the following: Anisometropia difference decreased from 2.61 ± 1.04 D to 2.07 ± 1.05 D (t=-7.366,
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