• Current eye research · Dec 2018

    Optical Performance of the Cornea One Year Following Keratoconus Treatment with Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking.

    • Betul Seher Uysal, Ozge Sarac, Derya Yaman, Emine Akcay, and Nurullah Cagil.
    • a Department of Ophthalmology , Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital , Ankara , Turkey.
    • Curr. Eye Res. 2018 Dec 1; 43 (12): 1415-1421.

    PurposeThe purpose of the study is to assess changes in optical performance of the cornea in patients with keratoconus following treatment with corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL).Materials And MethodsOne hundred and eleven eyes of 111 consecutive keratoconus patients with 12-month follow-up after CXL were included. The changes in the visual acuity, manifest refractive errors, and corneal topographic parameters were evaluated. Sirius dual-scanning corneal tomography was used to determine the effectiveness of CXL on each patient's total corneal optical quality; preoperative and 12-month postoperative measurements were analyzed over a 4-mm stimulated pupil and were compared with regards to higher order corneal aberrations (total amount of higher order aberrations [HOAs], vertical coma, horizontal coma, vertical trefoil, oblique trefoil, and spherical aberration), vertical and horizontal modulation transfer function (MTF), and Strehl ratio of point spread function (PSF).ResultsAt 12 months, there was a significant improvement in mean uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) (P < 0.001), best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) (P < 0.001), spherical equivalent refraction (P = 0.007), and manifest astigmatic refraction (P < 0.001). The corneal topographic measurements revealed a significant decrease in the mean simulated keratometry-1, simulated keratometry -2, and maximum keratometry compared with the baseline measurements (P < 0.001, for all). In addition, there were significant improvements in mean root mean square error values for corneal total HOA (P < 0.001), vertical coma (P < 0.001), and vertical trefoil (P = 0.008) following CXL. Mean MTF and Strehl ratio did not change after CXL (P > 0.05). The improvement in UCVA significantly correlated with the changes in vertical trefoil (r = -0.191, P = 0.044), and the improvement in BCVA and the changes in manifest astigmatic correction were also significantly correlated (r = -0.247, P = 0.009) 12 months after CXL.ConclusionsCXL treatment for keratoconus led to an improvement in visual, refractive, topographic, and most corneal HOAs outcomes at the 12-month follow-up. However, these improvements were not enough to increase corneal MTF and the Strehl ratio of PSF.

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