Progreive axial myopia in a juvenile patient with traumatic glaucoma

PURPOE: To report a cae of progreive axial myopia aociated with traumatic glaucoma in a juvenile patient with no ytemic dieae. DEIGN: Interventional cae report. METHOD: In a 15-year-old male, erial ocular examination, including manifet refraction, tonometry, and axial eye length meaurement, were performed over a 6-year period, beginning with blunt trauma, right eye, followed by a erie of urgical procedure for traumatic cataract and glaucoma. REULT: A 4-diopter myopic hift (from −1.25 to −5.25) with a 1.5 mm increae in the axial eye length occurred, wherea the intraocular preure increaed from 21 to 46 mm Hg, during a 2-year period. The refraction, axial eye length, and intraocular preure remained table during the ame period in the fellow, normal eye. CONCLUION: Progreive axial myopia aociated with traumatic glaucoma i poible in a juvenile patient in hi late teen