P resbyopia causes diminishing of vision-targeted life quality and occupational performance for most people over 40 years old. It affects the ability to perform visual tasks at near distance such as book reading, handcrafts, stitching, cooking and surgical operation. Although there are some treatment modalities such as surgery, the use of near-glasses and contact lenses for presbyopia, topical drug treatment for pharmacological control of presbyopia is currently a very popular and attractive nonsurgical option. In this review, we tried to summarise the presbyopia drop treatment. KeywordsPresbyopia, para-sympathomimetic, accommodation, ciliary muscle contraction, drop treatment, myosis, lens softening, increased focus depth Disclosure: Feyza Çalis Karanfil and Burak Turgut have nothing to declare in relation to this article. Compliance with Ethics:This study involves a review of the literature and did not involve any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.Authorship: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship of this manuscript, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given final approval to the version to be published.Open Access: This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, adaptation and reproduction provided the original author(s) and source are given appropriate credit. Presbyopia is progressive age-related reduction in accommodation amplitude and the loss of ability of the eye to focus on near objects. It occurs in almost everyone at around 40 years of age.1-5 Presbyopia affects visual tasks at near distance such as book reading, handcrafts, stitching, cooking and surgical operation. Thus, it causes the diminishing of vision-targeted life quality and occupational performance of many people over 40. [1][2][3][4][5] The physiopathology of presbyopia is not clearly known. However, it has been demonstrated that various factors including the hardening of the lens, changes in the elasticity of the lens capsule, lens dimension, geometry of zonular attachments and ciliary muscle contraction may be responsible for the accommodative loss in presbyopia. 1,2Accommodation in humans is performed by ciliary muscle (CM) and iris sphincter contractions, convergence and changes in the shape and position of the lens. The muscles of the iris and ciliary body are stimulated by the parasympathetic system. The parasympathetic cholinergic stimulation causes the contraction of the CM and myosis, providing the increase of focus depth and the shape and position of the lens both to change and for accommodation to develop. 3In an eye which is un-accommodated and looks at a distant object, CM is relaxed; the anterior zonular fibers (ZF) are stretched by traction from the posterior ZF. Then, anterior ZF flattens the lens. In the accommodated eye, the forward and inward movement of the ciliary muscle allows the tension...
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