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Refractive predictability of partial coherence interferometry and factors that can affect it
Seung Mo Kim1, Joohyun Choi, Sangkyung Choi
1Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Veterans Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose:
To evaluate the refractive predictability of a partial coherence interferometry (PCI) biometry device (IOL Master) for cataract surgery and to investigate factors that may affect it.
Methods:
Retrospective review of 209 eyes from 151 patients that had undergone preoperative PCI biometry and an uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery with posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) implantation was conducted. Prediction error defined as the intended refraction minus the postoperative refraction in spherical equivalent (SE) and the absolute error were analyzed according to IOL calculation formulas, patient characteristics, preoperative visual acuity (VA) and refraction, posterior subcapsular cataract (PSC), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and axial length (AL).
Results:
The overall refractive predictability of the PCI device was good. Generally, the SRK/T formula performed better than the SRK-II formula. Refractive predictability was slightly worse in eyes with >or=+2.0 diopters (D) of preoperative SE (with both SRK-II and SRK/T) and in eyes with an AL
Conclusions:
The SRK/T formula performed significantly better than the SRK-II formula. Eyes with an AL
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