Perforating scleral vessels in children and myopia-related pattern.

Cohort studyActa ophthalmologica· Jul 2026

Perforating scleral vessels in children and myopia-related pattern.

Fiammetta Catania, Youssef Abdelmassih, Emanuele Crincoli … Thibaut Chapron

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Myopic children have more perforating scleral vessels than non-myopic children.

Perforating scleral vessels in children and myopia-related pattern.

Fiammetta Catania … Thibaut Chapron

Acta ophthalmologica · Jul 2026 · Q1 in Ophthalmology

Purpose

To compare prevalence, location and orientation of perforating scleral vessels (perforating scleral vessels) at the ocular posterior pole between emmetropic and myopic children.

Methods

The prospective observational study included children undergoing standardized 20° × 20° enhanced-depth imaging optical coherence tomography (enhanced-depth imaging optical coherence tomography).

n = 102 eyes

Results

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myopic eyes had more sclera-piercing blood vessels than non-myopic eyes

n = 102 eyes

More results

The study included 102 eyes (51 children; age: 10.3 ± 3.3 years; range: 4-16 years).

More results

In the central sector, perforating scleral vessels prevalence was marginally (p = 0.08) higher in the myopic eyes than in the non-myopic eyes, and correspondingly, perforating scleral vessels prevalence in the outer nasal sector was marginally (p = 0.12) higher in the non-myopic eyes.

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Conclusion

Count, location, entry angle and direction of perforating scleral vessels differed between myopic versus non-myopic eyes. Further longitudinal studies will help clarify the role of this finding in myopic axial elongation.

Perforating scleral vessels in children and myopia-related pattern.

Perforating scleral vessels in children and myopia-related pattern.

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