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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 115-121 |
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Comparison of ocular monochromatic Higher-order aberrations in normal refractive surgery candidates of Arab and South Asian Origin
Gaurav Prakash, Dhruv Srivastava, Sounak Choudhuri, Ruthchel Bacero
Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, NMC Eye Care, New Medical Center Specialty Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Correspondence Address:
Gaurav Prakash
Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, NMC Eye Care, New Medical Center Specialty Hospital, Electra Street, P. O. Box: 6222, Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0974-9233.171758
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Purpose: To compare the ocular monochromatic higher.order aberration. (HOA) profile in normal refractive surgery candidates of Arab and South Asian origin.
Methods: This cross.sectional, observational, comparative study was performed in the cornea department of a specialty hospital. Normal refractive surgery candidates with no ocular morbidity except refractive error were recruited. Refractive surgery candidates underwent a preoperative evaluation, including wavefront aberrometry with the iDesign aberrometer. (AMO, Inc., Santa Ana, California, United States). The HOA from right eyes were analyzed for HOA signed, absolute, and polar Zernike coefficients.
Results: Two hundred Arab participants (group 1) and 200 participants of South-Asian origin (group 2) comprised the study sample. The age and refractive status were comparable between groups. The mean of the HOA root mean square (RMS) was 0.36 ± 17 μ and 0.38 ± 18 μ for Arab and South-Asian eyes, respectively (P < 0.05, rank sum test [RST]). Of the 22 higher order signed Zernike modes, only Z3−3, Z3−1, 31, Z4−4, Z4−2, Z40, Z44, and Z5−5 were significantly different from zero (one sample t-test, P < 0.002, with a Bonferroni correction of 0.05/22). All the signed and absolute Zernike terms were comparable between groups (RST, P > 0.002 [0.05/22]). The polar coefficients for coma, trefoil, spherical aberration, and tetrafoil were comparable between groups (P > 0.05, RST). Combined RMS values of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth order also were comparable between groups (P > 0.05, RST).
Conclusions: Preoperative whole eye HOA were similar for refractive surgery candidates of Arab and South.Asian origin. The values were comparable to historical data for Caucasian eyes and were lower than Asian. (Chinese) eyes. These findings may aid in refining refractive nomograms for wavefront ablations. |
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