Emmanuel Eric Pazo

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Unilateral ectasia after small-incision lenticule extraction

Emmanuel Eric Pazo, Richard N. McNeely, Samuel Arba‐Mosquera, Christoph Palme, Jonathan Edward Moore

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, 2018 · article · doi:10.1016/j.jcrs.2018.10.018 · cited by 21

Ocular surface & dry eye

Abstract

A 23-year-old man developed unilateral corneal ectasia after bilateral small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE). The preoperative corneal topography was normal, with a minimum corneal thickness of 582 μm and 586 μm in the right eye and left eye, respectively. The refractive correction was -3.00 diopters (D) sphere in the right eye and -3.50 D sphere in the left eye. At the 12-month postoperative visit, corneal topography showed early signs of ectasia in the right eye; the ectasia had deteriorated by the 15-month examination. Corneal crosslinking was performed to arrest further progression. At the last examination, the uncorrected distance visual acuity in the right eye was 0.1 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) and the corrected distance visual acuity, -0.1 logMAR.

Keywords: corneal ectasia; small incision lenticule extraction; smiling; refractive surgery complications; corneal cross-linking; corneal topography; corneal thickness; visual acuity

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Pazo, E. E., McNeely, R. N., Arba‐Mosquera, S., Palme, C., Moore, J. E. (2018). Unilateral ectasia after small-incision lenticule extraction. Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2018.10.018

@article{pazo2018unilateral,
  title = {{Unilateral ectasia after small-incision lenticule extraction}},
  author = {Pazo, Emmanuel Eric and McNeely, Richard N. and Arba‐Mosquera, Samuel and Palme, Christoph and Moore, Jonathan Edward},
  journal = {Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jcrs.2018.10.018},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2018.10.018},
}

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