Scientific journal
Научное обозрение. Медицинские науки
ISSN 2500-0780
ПИ №ФС77-57452

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MODERN DATA ABOUT ASTIGMATISM ETIOPATHOGENESIS

Korsakova N.V. 1 Ivanova E.P. 2 Vasilyeva I.A. 1
1 Chuvash State University named after I.N. Ulyanov
2 Novocheboksarsky Medical Centre
Refraktogenez of an eye is the actual medico-biological problem having great theoretical and practical value for medicine. It is known that about 30% of the population in the world suffer an astigmatism from 0,75D and above which leads to notable decrease in visual acuity, fast exhaustion at visual loading, to headaches. It is especially important to note that at children’s age the astigmatism can become the reason of an underdevelopment of functions of the visual analyzer with formation of such heavy complication as an amblyopia. The material of presented article contains survey data of scientific literature concerning establishment of the reasons of development and mechanisms of astigmatism formation. Authors of the article carried out the analysis of large number of scientific publications of Russian and foreign authors devoted to the called section of the problem of eye refraction formation. It is important to note that the main quantity of the sources quoted in this literary review are published current 2013. Thus, in this article authors presented modern data about astigmatism etiopathogenesis which knowledge will help achievement of stable result at correction of an astigmatism and prevention of its complications.