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| Hypermetropia Classification & external resources | |
| ICD-10 | H52.0 |
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| ICD-9 | 367.0 |
Hyperopia, also known as hypermetropia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens cannot become round enough), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in some cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance. As an object moves toward the eye, the eye must increase its power to keep the image in focus on the retina. If the power of the cornea and lens is insufficient, as in hyperopia, the image will appear blurred.
Hyperopia, and restoring of vision with convex lens
People with hyperopia can experience blurred vision, asthenopia, accommodative dysfunction, binocular dysfunction, amblyopia, and strabismus.American Optometric Association. Optometric Clinical Practice Guideline: Care of the patient with hyperopia. 1997.
Hyperopia is often confused with presbyopia "Eye Health: Presbyopia and Your Eyes." WebMD.com. October, 2005. Accessed September 21, 2006.Chou B. "Refractive Error and Presbyopia." Refractive Source.com Accessed September 20, 2006., another condition that frequently causes blurry near vision. American Optometric Association. Optometric Clinical Practice Guideline: Care of the patient with presbyopia. 1998. Presbyopes who report good far vision typically experience blurry near vision because of a reduced accommodative amplitude brought about by natural aging changes with the crystalline lens. It is also sometimes referred to as farsightedness, since in otherwise normally-sighted persons it makes it more difficult to focus on near objects than on far objects.Kazuo Tsubota, Brian S. Boxer Wacher, Dimitri T. Azar, and Douglas D. Koch, editors, , Hyperopia and Presbyopia, New York: Marcel Decker, 2003
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Hyperopia is typically classified according to clinical appearance, its severity, or how it relates to the eye\'s accommodative status.
It also occurs when light entering the eye focuses behind the cornea.
Visual acuity is affected according to the amount of hyperopia, as well as the patient\'s age, visual demands, and accommodative ability.
Various eye care professionals, including ophthalmologists, optometrists, orthoptists, and opticians, are involved in the treatment and management of hyperopia. At the conclusion of an eye examination, an eye doctor may provide the patient with an eyeglass prescription for corrective lenses.
Minor amounts of hyperopia are sometimes left uncorrected, however, larger amounts may be corrected with convex lenses in eyeglasses or contact lenses. Convex lenses have a positive dioptric value, which causes the light to focus closer than its normal range.
Hyperopia is sometimes correctable with various refractive surgery procedures.
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