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Effect of spherical aberration on visual function under photopic and mesopic conditions after cataract surgery
- Source :
- Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. 35:57-63
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2009.
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Abstract
- Purpose To evaluate the effect of spherical aberration on visual function under natural pupil conditions after cataract surgery. Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Methods This study comprised cataract patients who had cataract extraction with implantation of an acrylic intraocular lens. Preoperative and postoperative visual acuity, higher-order aberration in the whole eye, contrast sensitivity function, and pupil diameter under photopic and mesopic conditions 1 month after surgery were measured. The area under log contrast sensitivity function (AULCSF) and spherical aberration corresponding to the individual pupil diameter under photopic and mesopic conditions were evaluated. Results One hundred seven eyes of 79 patients (30 men, 49 women; mean age 68.0 years ± 9.6 [SD]) were evaluated. The mean pupil diameter was 2.9 ± 0.50 mm under photopic conditions and 3.6 ± 0.57 mm under mesopic conditions. The mean spherical aberration was 0.03 ± 0.04 μm (range −0.12 to 0.34 μm) under photopic conditions and 0.05 ± 0.10 μm (range −0.14 to 0.55 μm) under mesopic conditions. The postoperative AULCSF without glare under photopic conditions was significantly negatively correlated with spherical aberration ( P = .014). The postoperative AULCSF with and without glare under mesopic conditions was significantly negatively correlated with spherical aberration ( P P = .01, respectively). Conclusions Postoperative spherical aberration had a significant effect on visual function under photopic and mesopic conditions. This result indicates that reduced postoperative spherical aberration improves postoperative visual function under photopic and mesopic conditions.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
Light
Pseudophakia
genetic structures
Mesopic vision
media_common.quotation_subject
medicine.medical_treatment
Acrylic Resins
Visual Acuity
Intraocular lens
Pupil
Glare
Contrast Sensitivity
Lens Implantation, Intraocular
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Contrast (vision)
Aged
media_common
Aged, 80 and over
Lenses, Intraocular
Phacoemulsification
business.industry
Glare (vision)
Middle Aged
eye diseases
Sensory Systems
Surgery
Spherical aberration
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
business
Photopic vision
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08863350
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....137f5c731ff892f2b44c925915ea7d78