Topcon MYAH Corneal Topographer Myopia Management

Description

Topcon MYAH introduces an innovative service to offer to your patients: it is about setting up a valid myopic progression monitoring service for younger patients. With MYAH, you can follow your myopic patients from an early age, evaluate possible treatments for their myopia or attest to when myopia has stabilized to undertake a correction of the same.

“The MYAH solution is perfectly suited to combat the growing attacks of myopia and dry eye. Its versatility and ease of use allow optical care professionals to easily create a specialized myopia department in their office; to educate patients on the implications of myopia and dry eye; to manage the pathology of their patients; and expand their service offerings,” said John Trefethen, Global VP, Marketing and Product Design, Topcon Healthcare.

You will also be able to perform detailed topographies and a study of the cornea as on a normal topographer by correlating the analysis of the cornea to that of the axial length and performing a keratoconus screening.

The pupillometry module is also available on board.

Another attractive component is the dry eye assessment, which you can dedicate to both boys and girls who spend a lot of time with smartphones and tablets and to adult patients who work their eyes in long sessions of PC use.

Topcon MYAH was born with a look towards the future so as not to be unprepared for the consequences of the growing use of electronic devices, especially among children and teenagers.

MYAH is a multi-function and stand-alone instrument, i.e., it does not need to be connected to a PC as it has an internal archive and a touch screen. In short, it occupies the space of an auto refractometer.

In addition to providing all the essential tools required to manage myopia, MYAH, an integrated and versatile solution, offers a scalable platform for adding or expanding dry eye management.

MYAH integrates corneal topography, including keratoconus screening and pupillometry, low coherence optical interferometry axial length measurements, progress reports to analyze treatment effectiveness, and a full suite of assessment tools for dry eye. The device is compact, easy to use, and offers rapid capture to ensure patient satisfaction.

Topcon MYAH has all measurement options on board.

MYAH has all the tools on board for this decision and, as a corneal topographer, also offers all measurement options for contact lens fitting, including keratoconus screening and pupillometry. MYAH is an extraordinarily efficient and valuable measuring instrument in eye health care and therapy.

The Europe-wide launch of the new all-rounder from Topcon Healthcare means simplified diagnosis and optimized treatment for ophthalmologists. Opticians and optometrists can use MYAH equally when suitable fitting aids, for example, contact lenses, checking myopia, or keratoconus.

MYAH enables interdisciplinary cooperation between ophthalmologists and opticians, which is mandatory in myopia management. Many studies have shown that atropine is an indispensable agent in myopia management therapy.

Key features

• Corneal topography: including keratoconus screening, pupillometry, and contact lens fitting;
• Axial length measurement: accurate and high reproducibility;
• Progress reports: onboard tracking of axis length and refractive index progression over time;
• Dry eye tools: comprehensive package for assessing dry eyes.

Grow your business with Myopia Management and Dry Eye Research. Provide education and information about how you can help manage the condition. As an expert, this fits well within your service offering, and MYAH offers all the technologies needed to support this.

Topcon MYAH can help advance myopia management care in further ways and diagnosis and management of dry eye disease.

As the eye increases in length, our lens prescription increases, and there’s a greater risk of ocular diseases (e.g., glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration). Rapid myopia progression in children is due to excessive eye elongation.

Therefore, to monitor the effectiveness of myopia management treatments, axial length measurements are charted at each follow-up visit, which serves as the standard of care for our myopia management program. For Ortho-k lens patients, the axial length is the primary measure used to evaluate myopia progression.

Dry Eye Assessment

Noninvasive tear break-up time (NIBUT) measurement

MYAH can evaluate the stability of your tear film by accurately measuring the tear break-up time non-invasively. Typically, tear break-up time is around 10 seconds — with shorter tear break-up time, significantly below 5 seconds, indicative of dry eye disease.

Meibomian gland imaging

The meibomian glands are oil glands embedded in our eyelids that produce the lipid layer of the tear film and are expressed when we blink. Imaging glands allow doctors to analyze their shape and structure. Healthy glands will appear long and continuous in the image, assisting oil production in the eye for lubrication.

Contrastingly, unhealthy glands will appear much shorter due to degradation and inspissated, thus producing oil of a “toothpaste” consistency or being entirely clogged and unable to secrete oil.

Software-guided Lens Fitting

Many programs are starting to become available that allow you to fit GP and scleral contact lenses. Profilometry describes scleral lens topographers— e.g., the Eaglet Eye Surface Profiler, Oculus Pentacam, sMap 3D (Visionary Optics)—designed to help practitioners choose the first lens to start their scleral lens fitting.

There are software programs available that will help you visualize and design a fit of a gas-permeable lens. This software is built into topographers, one of the first being the Medmont. You can see what the fluorescein pattern would like for a specific lens on the eye, modify parameters and see how those changes would impact your fit—all before ordering a lens.

Other programs that also do this include the EyeSpace and Wave contact lens programs.

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