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Published on: June 27, 2025
Unilateral ectasia after small-incision lenticule extraction
Eric E Pazo1, Richard N McNeely1, Samuel Arba-Mosquera2
1Cathedral Eye Clinic, Belfast, United Kingdom; School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, United Kingdom.
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.
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