A comparative study of ocular aberrations: before and after pterygium surgery.
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Background: Pterygium can distort the corneal surface of the eye, causing astigmatism and higher-order aberrations that affect vision. Pterygium surgery may reduce ocular aberrations.
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of pterygium excision on ocular aberrations.
Methods: Thirty-two patients with primary pterygium were enrolled. Values of ocular aberration consisting of defocus, astigmatism, secondary astigmatism, coma, secondary coma, trefoil, spherical aberration, quadrafoil and pentafoil were measured with wavefront analysis technique. These parameters were recorded before and one-month after the pterygium excision. Results were analyzed by paired t-test.
Results: Of the 32 patients, there were 9 males (28%) and 23 females (72%), mean age was 58.4+/-10.6 years. Mean ratio of pterygium size to a corneal diameter was 0.31+/-0.02. Fourteen patients (44%) had uncorrected visual acuity greater than 20/40 in the affected eyes, and 21 patients (66%) had visual acuity greater than 20/40 after pterygium excision. Mean values of ocular aberrations in micrometers (before and after surgery) were 0.91±0.88, 0.45±0.75 for defocus, 0.22±0.52, 0.32±0.19 for astigmatism, 0.09±0.81, -0.01±0.07 for secondary astigmatism, -0.03±0.20, -0.07±0.12 for coma, -0.05±0.10, 0.02+/-0.03 for secondary coma, 0.70±0.45, 0.09±0.15 for trefoil, -0.01±0.07, 0.01±0.03 for secondary trefoil, 0.29±0.08, 0.05±0.05 for spherical aberration, -0.10±0.13, 0.14±0.09 for quadrafoil and -0.02±0.09, 0.02+/-0.04 for pentafoil. All parameters showed no statistical difference pre-surgery and one-month post-surgery (p>0.05) except for spherical aberration (p=0.012).
Conclusion: Excision of pterygium can reduce spherical aberration.
Conflict of interest: none.
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