ASSESSMENT OF VISUAL AND REFRACTIVE OUTCOMES BETWEEN THE CONVENTIONAL PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY AND TRANSEPITHELIAL PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY IN CORRECTION OF MILD TO MODERATE MYOPIA | ||||
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Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2024, Page 12-13 | ||||
Document Type: Preliminary preprint short reports of original research | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.263725.1770 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Amir Abousamra1; Hany Helaly2; Amr Ahmed Said3; Ahmed khairy Barakat 4 | ||||
1Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt | ||||
2Department of ophthalmology, faculty of medicine, Alexandria university | ||||
3Ophthalmology department Alexandria University | ||||
4Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Myopia is a major global problem for vision and blindness, according to the World Health Organization Refractive surgery, which corrects ametropia, has changed a lot over the years and become one of the most common medical procedures. The first surface ablation procedure (corrective eye surgery) to use a laser instead of a blade to remove the corneal tissue was Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) By reshaping the outer epithelialized surface of the cornea, PRK uses excimer laser ablation to correct ametropia with up to 6 D of myopia, around 3 D of astigmatism and low–moderate hypermetropia. Removing of the epithelium in (PRK) was performed by several techniques includingconventional PRKwhich include mechanical and chemical methods , and by the excimer laser itself, which is called transepithelial PRK where the epithelium is removed by an excimer laser instead of alcohol and manual scraping. AIM OF THE WORK: The aim of this work was to compare visual and refractive outcomes between conventional PRK and transepithelial PRK in the treatment of mild to moderate myopia. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
TRANSEPITHELIAL PRK; CONVENTIONAL PRK; MYOPIA | ||||
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