196 high myopic eyes of 118 patients, preoperatively needing at least 10 diopter (10 D) corrections to achieve 20/20 vision, were evaluated ten years following surgery.

Worse best-corrected visual acuity, longer axial length, faster axial length elongation and severe myopic maculopathy were reported risk factors for myopic maculopathy progression in children ...

The most important predicting variables were baseline BCVA (logMAR odds ratio, 0.298), as well as prior myopic macular neovascularization, age, and category 4 myopic maculopathy (odds ratios, 3. ...