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Corneal tomographic features of postrefractive surgery ectasia
Khamar P, Dalal R, Chandapura R, Francis M, Shetty R, , Nuijts R.M.M.A, Sinha Roy A.
Published in Wiley
2019
PMID: 30191680
Volume: 12
   
Issue: 2
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the tomographic features of postrefractive surgery eyes. This was a retrospective evaluation of clinical data. Three patients with post-LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) and two patients with post-SMILE (small incision lenticule extraction) ectasia were imaged with Scheimpflug imaging (SI, Pentacam) and optical coherence tomography (OCT, RTVue). Curvature and wavefront aberrations of the air-epithelium interface (A-E) and epithelium-Bowman's layer interface (E-B) were derived. OCT of normal and keratoconic eyes from an earlier study were compared with the data of the ectasia eyes. Curvature and aberrometry of the A-E interfaces were statistically similar between SI and OCT. However, OCT revealed a steeper and more aberrated E-B interface than A-E though correlation between them was inferior to the correlation for keratoconic eyes. Furthermore, the magnitude of differences between the A-E and E-B interfaces was greater in the ectasia eyes than the keratoconic eyes. OCT could possibly assist better in selecting appropriate treatment plan for postrefractive surgery ectasia eyes than conventional tomographers. © 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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JournalData powered by TypesetJournal of Biophotonics
PublisherData powered by TypesetWiley
ISSN1864-063X
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