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In view of the guidelines for myopia management published by the International Myopia Institute in 2019, the aim of this retrospective data analysis of a tertiary care center was to review past experience with OK and MFCLs for myopia control and gain information to update current practice.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Patients and Methods The contact lens (CL) database of the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital of Basel was searched with the label \u201cmyopia progression\u201d between January 2012\u200a\u2013\u200a2020. Patients were included if they gave informed consent, were younger than 19 years old at baseline, and had no ocular comorbidities that could potentially compromise vision. Primary outcomes were progression of spherical equivalent refraction for MFCL patients and progression of axial length (AL) for the OK group, comparing with historical data from OK trials. Secondary outcomes were the presence of risk factors for myopia, age, refractive error at baseline, follow-up duration, and adverse effects during therapy.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Results Twenty-one patients could be included, with a mean age of 12.80\u2009\u00b1\u20093.32 years (y) at baseline. The majority of patients were older than 12 years and already myopic (\u2212\u20093.89\u2009\u00b1\u20092.30 diopters) when control treatment was started. Overall, follow-up ranged from 0.08 to 6.33 years (2.03\u2009\u00b1\u20091.66\u2009y). In the patients treated with MFCLs, myopia control improved significantly when patients changed from spectacles to MFCLs. In the OK group, 14% dropped out during the first year and 2 patients had multiple AL measurements during therapy, which showed a slower growth of AL when compared to other OK trials and controls with spectacles. There were two cases of non-severe keratitis. Environmental risk factors had not been documented and only 48% of clinical records had a documented family risk assessment.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Conclusion Patients showed a slower myopia progression under MFCLs or OK, which supports their role as a treatment option in myopia management. In this regard, AL measurement is an important additional parameter to be included in the assessment of myopia progression in clinical practice. Identification of children at risk of developing high\/pathologic myopia (family history, environmental risk factors) needs to improve so that the first stages of myopic shift can be recognized and targeted. Changes in lifestyle should be actively encouraged, especially when the impact of decreases in outdoor time secondary to COVID-19 is yet to become clear.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-1440-0642","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,30]],"date-time":"2021-04-30T22:48:38Z","timestamp":1619822918000},"page":"437-442","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Slowing Down Myopia Progression with Contact Lenses \u2013 Everyday Cases from the Clinic"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"238","author":[{"given":"Ana Paula","family":"Ribeiro Reis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ophthalmology, Universit\u00e4tsspital Basel Augenklinik, Basel, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4062-4814","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anja","family":"Palmowski-Wolfe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ophthalmology, Universit\u00e4tsspital Basel Augenklinik, Basel, 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