Comparison of visual acuity, higher-order aberrations and corneal asphericity after refractive lenticule extraction and wavefront-guided laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis for myopia
- 25 December 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 97 (8), 968-975
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-302047
Abstract
Aim To compare postoperative visual acuity, higher-order aberrations (HOAs) and corneal asphericity after femtosecond lenticule extraction (FLEx) and after wavefront-guided laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (wfg-LASIK) in myopic eyes. Methods We examined 43 eyes of 23 patients undergoing FLEx and 34 eyes of 19 patients undergoing wfg-LASIK to correct myopia. Ocular HOAs were measured by Hartmann-Shack aberrometry and corneal asphericity was measured by a rotating Scheimpflug imaging system before and 3 months after surgery. Results There was no statistically significant difference in uncorrected (p=0.66 Mann–Whitney U-test) or corrected distance visual acuity (p=0.14) after two surgical procedures. For a 6-mm pupil, the changes in fourth-order aberrations after FLEx were statistically significantly less than those after wfg-LASIK (pConclusions In myopic eyes, FLEx induces significantly fewer ocular fourth-order aberrations than wfg-LASIK, possibly because it causes less oblation in the corneal shape, but there was no statistically significant difference in visual acuity or in the induction of third-order aberrations and total HOAs. It is suggested that FLEx is essentially equivalent to wfg-LASIK in terms of visual acuity and total HOA induction, although the characteristics of HOA induction are different.Keywords
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