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. 2023 May;43(5):1465-1475.
doi: 10.1007/s10792-022-02543-8. Epub 2022 Oct 18.

Analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of Belin/Ambrósio Enhanced Ectasia and Corvis ST parameters for subclinical keratoconus

Yaowen Song  1 , Yi Feng  1 , Min Qu  1 , Qiuxia Ma  1 , Huiqin Tian  1 , Dan Li  1 , Rui He  2
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Analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of Belin/Ambrósio Enhanced Ectasia and Corvis ST parameters for subclinical keratoconus

Yaowen Song et al. Int Ophthalmol. 2023 May.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the parameters in the Belin/Ambrósio Enhanced Ectasia Display built in Pentacam, which is designed for the screening of subclinical keratoconus (SKC) built in Pentacam, and the parameters in Corneal visualization Scheimpflug technology (Corvis ST).

Methods: A retrospective study: The fellow eyes of unilateral keratoconus cases were diagnosed with SKC. Patients presented to Shanxi Eye Hospital with SKC from October 2020 to November 2021 were included as the SKC group, and myopic patients undergoing corneal refractive surgery at the Refractive Surgery Department in our hospital within the same period were included as the control group. The Belin/Ambrósio and Corvis ST parameters were extracted from the system and analyzed using independent samples t test. Receiver operating curves (ROCs) were also created to test the diagnostic accuracy of each parameter.

Results: There were 70 patients (70 eyes) in the SKC group and 137 patients (137 eyes) in the control group. For Corvis ST parameters, Radius (P = 0.021), PachySlope (P = 0.040), SP-A1 (P = 0.002), A2 Deformation Amp. (P = 0.028), A2 Deflection Length (P < 0.001), Max ICR (P = 0.005), DA Ratio Max (1 mm) (P = 0.023), IR (P = 0.016), CBI (P = 0.003) and TBI (P < 0.001) were statistically different between the two groups. For Belin/Ambrósio parameters, PPI min. Axis, ART min, ART max, ART avg, Pachy min, Front K2, Astig, BAD-Df, BAD-Db, BAD-Dp, BAD-Dt, BAD-Da, BAD-D, PPI min, PPI max, PPI max. Axis, PPI avg and Dist.Apex-Thin.Loc. were significantly different between the two groups (all p < 0.001). TBI and BAD-D showed the best diagnostic accuracy, with AUCs of 0.944 and 0.965, respectively.

Conclusions: Some Belin/Ambrósio and Corvis ST parameters differed between SKC eyes and eyes with normal cornea. TBI and BAD-D showed the ideal diagnostic performance for SKC. In clinical practice, conventional corneal topography could not be replaced by Corvis ST.

Keywords: Belin/Ambrósio Enhanced Ectasia; Corneal biomechanics; Corvis ST; Keratoconus; Receiver operating curve.

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