Adult onset unilateral high myopia in a female patient: A case report

The abrupt onset of myopia in one eye in a healthy individual in this case, the degree of myopia, the nature and rate of progression, absence of risk factors, and otherwise normal ocular examination except for progressive increase in axial length is unusual. Our case brings us to conjecture the role of powerful local factors in the intrinsic regulation of eyeball growth going askew. We believe more and more reporting of myopia cases deviating from natural history and their study might provide clues in a new direction about myopia pathogenesis and our understanding and tackling of one of the oldest eye disease with an ever increasing prevalence.