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CK for presbyopia complements previous refractive procedures
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LISBON, Portugal — Conductive keratoplasty can improve near vision in presbyopic patients who have undergone previous refractive surgical treatments, a surgeon said here.
“Conductive keratoplasty complements our LASIK and refractive IOL practice,” Daniel S. Durrie, MD, said here at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
He presented data on 27 patients who underwent CK for presbyopia after LASIK or PRK. The mean patient age was 53, and the mean uncorrected distance vision before CK was 20/40.
Patients were treated in one eye with eight spots at a 7.5-mm-diameter optical zone. Follow-up visits at 1 day and 1 and 3 months included measurement of near and distance acuity and wavefront analysis.
At the 3-month follow-up point, the mean near UCVA was 20/39, with 7.4% of patients seeing 20/20 or better, 40.7% seeing 20/30 or better and 70.4% seeing 20/40 or better.
The mean distance UCVA was 20/41, the mean sphere was –0.75 D, and the mean cylinder was –0.51 D, Dr. Durrie said.
He added that 52% of the patients wore glasses for reading preoperatively; this fell to 10% after CK.
“There is high patient satisfaction with functional vision and little or no compromise in uncorrected binocular distance acuity,” he said.