This article is more than 5 years old. Information may no longer be current.

New optical distortion may be the cause of some refractive errors

Add topic to email alerts

Receive an email when new articles are posted on

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on .

Subscribe

Added to email alerts

You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published.

Click Here to Manage Email Alerts

You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published.

Click Here to Manage Email Alerts

Back to Healio

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com.

Back to Healio

MUNICH, Germany — A previously undescribed entity separate from sphere and cylinder may be responsible for some refractive distortions, according to a poster presentation displayed here.

Vidushi Sharma, MD, FRCS (Edin) and colleagues with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences identified the refractive error, which they dubbed aberropia, in a retrospective review of 16 eyes of 10 patients who underwent LASIK with wavefront. They presented their results during the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.

All patients had visual acuities of 20/32 (0.63) before undergoing LASIK with the Bausch & Lomb Zyoptix system. Postoperatively, all patients improved by at least 2 lines of Snellen acuity. At 1 month postop, 70% of patients were within 0.5 D of intended correction and 90% were within 1 D.

Overall, 93.75% of patients achieved BCVA of 20/20 or better, 25% achieved 20/60 or better and 25% achieved a BCVA of 20/10.