PURPOSE: To examine factors useful in evaluation of suspect decentration after refractive surgery. METHODS: We evaluated 148 cases (eyes) referred to us for recentering procedures by review of information obtainable by evaluation of pupil position, corneal topography, and corneal curvature gradient. RESULTS: Only a minority of eyes (n=5, 3.4%) were truly decentered; in the remaining majority a high dioptric gradient with consequent focal scarring was present (n=107, 72.3%). In 28 eyes (18.9%), a drifting of the eye during treatment was responsible, and in eight eyes (5.4%), a central island was observed. CONCLUSIONS: Proper corneal topographical diagnosis reduces the risk of improperly suspecting decentration, and for most cases, smoothing of the central cornea is a simple and efficacious solution. Recommendations for the prevention of decentration include proper patient positioning, special care in treating high myopes, preoperative check of pupil displacement nasally, evaluation of preoperative map with detection of high temporal curvature gradient, and use of the cross-cylinder technique in the treatment of astigmatism.

Decentration after refractive surgery

Vinciguerra P;
2001-01-01

Abstract

PURPOSE: To examine factors useful in evaluation of suspect decentration after refractive surgery. METHODS: We evaluated 148 cases (eyes) referred to us for recentering procedures by review of information obtainable by evaluation of pupil position, corneal topography, and corneal curvature gradient. RESULTS: Only a minority of eyes (n=5, 3.4%) were truly decentered; in the remaining majority a high dioptric gradient with consequent focal scarring was present (n=107, 72.3%). In 28 eyes (18.9%), a drifting of the eye during treatment was responsible, and in eight eyes (5.4%), a central island was observed. CONCLUSIONS: Proper corneal topographical diagnosis reduces the risk of improperly suspecting decentration, and for most cases, smoothing of the central cornea is a simple and efficacious solution. Recommendations for the prevention of decentration include proper patient positioning, special care in treating high myopes, preoperative check of pupil displacement nasally, evaluation of preoperative map with detection of high temporal curvature gradient, and use of the cross-cylinder technique in the treatment of astigmatism.
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