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Comparative Study
. 2020 May;39(5):609-614.
doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000002274.

The Effect of Intraoperative Angle Kappa Adjustment on Higher-Order Aberrations Before and After Small Incision Lenticule Extraction

Ting Shao  1 , Yan Wang  2 , Alex L K Ng  3   4 , Tommy C Y Chan  5   6 , Weiting Hao  1 , Jiamei Zhang  2 , George P M Cheng  7 , Vishal Jhanji  8
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Comparative Study

The Effect of Intraoperative Angle Kappa Adjustment on Higher-Order Aberrations Before and After Small Incision Lenticule Extraction

Ting Shao et al. Cornea. 2020 May.

Abstract

Purpose: To compare higher-order aberrations (HOAs) after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) in patients with and without intraoperative angle kappa adjustments.

Methods: This is a retrospective case series. One hundred six eyes of 106 patients who underwent SMILE at Tianjin Eye Hospital (Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China) for correction of myopia and myopic astigmatism were divided into 2 groups. The first group consisted of eyes with intraoperative angle kappa adjustment and the second group consisted of eyes without adjustment. Preoperative and postoperative visual outcome, refraction, and HOA measurements at 1 and 3 months were compared.

Results: At the pupil size of 6 mm, vertical coma at 1 and 3 months after SMILE for the angle kappa-adjusted group was 0.153 ± 0.107 and 0.157 ± 0.094 μm, which were significantly lower than those of the nonadjusted group (0.204 ± 0.117 and 0.203 ± 0.113 μm, respectively) (P = 0.026 at 1 mo, P = 0.047 at 3 mo). The change in vertical coma between preoperative and postoperative measurements was 0.011 ± 0.136 and 0.023 ± 0.129 μm at 1 and 3 months postoperatively for the angle kappa-adjusted group, which were lower than those of the nonadjusted group (0.082 ± 0.165 and 0.085 ± 0.150 μm, respectively) (P = 0.023 at 1 mo, P = 0.045 at 3 mo). Subgroup analysis for eyes with large angle kappa demonstrated that the vertical coma was significantly less in the angle kappa-adjusted group at both 1 and 3 months (P = 0.009, P = 0.043, respectively). No significant correlation was observed between angle kappa and HOAs in the angle kappa-adjusted group.

Conclusions: Adjustment of angle kappa during SMILE resulted in less HOAs. It would provide more insight on how to optimize treatment centration in SMILE.

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