{"id":3158,"date":"2021-12-08T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusfoundation.org\/?post_type=sw_disease_condition&#038;p=3158"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:15:23","slug":"myopia-and-hyperopia","status":"publish","type":"sw_disease_condition","link":"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/diseases-and-conditions\/myopia-and-hyperopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Myopia and Hyperopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-focused-ultrasound-therapy\">Focused Ultrasound Therapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound is a noninvasive, therapeutic technology with the potential to improve the quality of life and decrease the cost of care for patients with myopia (nearsightedness) or hyperopia (farsightedness). This novel technology focuses beams of ultrasound energy precisely and accurately on targets deep in the brain without damaging surrounding normal tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it Works<\/strong><br>Where the beams converge, the ultrasound produces neuromodulation of the ocular cortex, potentially enabling myopia and hyperopia to be treated without surgery.&nbsp;While initial work has been accomplished, there is still much to be done before this technology will be widely available.<br><br><strong>Advantages<\/strong><br>The primary options for treatment of myopia and hyperopia are very limited to external corrections (glasses, contacts or invasive surgical corrections), and this could be a novel solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound can reach the desired target without damaging surrounding tissue and is repeatable, if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-clinical-trials\">Clinical Trials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the present time, there are no clinical trials recruiting patients for focused ultrasound treatment of myopia and hyperopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation updates these pages regularly, but with the increasing number of clinical trials, we want to be sure that our audience has the latest information available. Therefore, we also added the website search information for the above trials. If you click <a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////clinicaltrials.gov//search?cond=Retinal%20Disease&amp;term=focused%20ultrasound&amp;aggFilters=status:not%20rec\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, it will take you to the latest information available from <a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////www.clinicaltrials.gov///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-regulatory-approval-and-reimbursement-nbsp\">Regulatory Approval and Reimbursement&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound treatment for myopia and hyperopia is not yet approved by regulatory bodies or covered by medical insurance companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-notable-papers\">Notable Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lu G, Qian X, Castillo J, Li R, Jiang L, Lu H, Shung KK, Humayun MS, Thomas BB, Zhou Q.\u00a0<a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//32746196///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Non-invasive Neuromodulation of the Visual Cortex<\/strong><\/a>. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2020 Jun 29;PP. doi: 10.1109\/TUFFC.2020.3005670.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gong C, Li R, Lu G, Ji J, Zeng Y, Chen J, Chang C, Zhang J, Xia L, Nair DSR, Thomas BB, Song BJ, Humayun MS, Zhou Q.\u00a0<a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//37237647///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Non-Invasive\u202fHybrid\u202fUltrasound\u202fStimulation\u202fof Visual Cortex In Vivo<\/strong><\/a>. Bioengineering (Basel). 2023 May 10;10(5):577.\u00a0doi: 10.3390\/bioengineering10050577.\u00a0PMID:\u202f37237647\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Badadhe\u00a0JD, Roh H, Lee BC, Kim JH,\u00a0Im\u00a0M.\u00a0<a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//35990889///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Ultrasound\u202fstimulation\u202ffor non-invasive visual prostheses<\/strong><\/a>. Front Cell\u00a0Neurosci. 2022 Aug\u00a03;16:971148.\u00a0doi: 10.3389\/fncel.2022.971148.\u00a0eCollection\u00a02022.\u00a0PMID:\u202f35990889\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qian X, Lu G, Thomas BB, Li R, Chen X, Shung KK, Humayun M, Zhou Q.\u00a0<a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//37850175///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Noninvasive\u202fUltrasound\u202fRetinal\u202fStimulation\u202ffor\u202fVision\u202fRestoration\u202fat High Spatiotemporal Resolution<\/strong><\/a>. BME Front. 2022 Feb\u00a021;2022:9829316.\u00a0doi: 10.34133\/2022\/9829316.\u00a0eCollection\u00a02022.\u00a0PMID:\u202f37850175\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=https://www.fusfoundation.org/"https:////pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//?term=%28%22focused+ultrasound%22+OR+HIFU%29+and+%22blind%22&amp;sort=date\%22>Click here<\/a>&nbsp;for additional references from PubMed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"sw_disease_condition_cat":[27],"sw_disease_condition_stage":[14],"class_list":["post-3158","sw_disease_condition","type-sw_disease_condition","status-publish","hentry","sw_disease_condition_cat-ophthalmological"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Myopia and Hyperopia - Focused Ultrasound Foundation<\/title>\n<!-- Added by HTTrack --><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /><!-- /Added by HTTrack -->
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