EFFECT OF RECIPIENT-DONOR TREPHINE SIZE DISPARITY ON REFRACTIVE ERROR IN KERATOCONUS
EFFECT OF RECIPIENT-DONOR TREPHINE SIZE DISPARITY ON REFRACTIVE ERROR IN KERATOCONUS
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DOI:
10.1016/s0161-6420(89)32896-x
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发表时间:
1989-03-01
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影响因子:
13.7
通讯作者:
BOURNE, WM
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作者:
WILSON, SE;BOURNE, WM
A retrospective study was performed to evaluate the effect of recipient-donor trephine disparity on refractive error and corneal curvature postsuture removal in keratoconus. A double running suture technique was used and donor corneas were trephined from the endothelial side. When keratoconus patients with 0.25-mm larger donor than recipient trephines were compared with keratoconus patients with the same size recipient and donor trephines, a statistically significant increase in the mean keratometer value (45.4 and 43.8 diopters [D], respectively;P= 0.03) and increase in myopic spherical equivalent (−3.5 and −1.8 D, respectively;P= 0.03) was found. When keratoconus patients were compared with phakic Fuchs' dystrophy patients (both groups had 0.25mm oversize donor trephines), the keratoconus group had a statistically significantly higher myopic spherical equivalent (−3.5 and −1.4 D, respectively;P= 0.03) despite only a 0.7-D difference in mean keratometer value which was not statistically significant (45.4 and 44.7 D, respectively). This study supports the hypothesis that the degree of post-penetrating keratoplasty myopia in patients with keratoconus can be decreased by reducing recipient-donor trephine disparity.