Changes of Subfoveal Choroidal Thickness after Cataract Surgery: A Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Characteristics of the included studies and quality scores.
Author
Year
Ethnicity
Design
No. of eyes
OCT
Surgery machine
NSAIDs
DM
100 times scans
Same measure time
Quality score
Asena
2017
Caucasians
Retrospective
27
Topcon
Alcon
Yes
0
No
No
8
Bayhan
2016
Caucasians
Prospective
38
RTvue-100
Alcon
No
0
No
Yes
8
Brito
2015
Caucasians
Prospective
35
Heidelberg
Alcon
Yes
35
No
No
8
Celik
2016
Caucasians
Prospective
30
Zeiss
Alcon
Yes
0
No
No
9
Falcao
2014
Caucasians
Prospective
14
Heidelberg
Alcon
Yes
0
Yes
No
8
Ibrahim
2017
Caucasians
Prospective
53
Heidelberg
NA
Yes
0
Yes
No
8
Jiang
2017
Asians
Prospective
100
Heidelberg
Abbott
No
0
Yes
Yes
8
Pierru
2014
Caucasians
Prospective
115
Heidelberg
NA
No
32
Yes
No
8
Shahzad
2017
Caucasians
Prospective
202
Topcon
Alcon
No
0
Yes
Yes
8
Wang
2016
Asians
Prospective
24
Zeiss
AMO
No
0
Yes
No
9
Yang
2017
Asians
Prospective
66
NA
NA
No
0
No
No
9
Yilmaz
2016
Caucasians
Prospective
65
Heidelberg
NA
Yes
0
No
Yes
8
Zheng
2017
Asians
Prospective
32
Heidelberg
NA
No
0
Yes
No
8
OCT indicates the machine used to do optical coherence tomography, NSAIDs indicate nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs, DM indicates the number of patients with diabetes mellitus, 100 times scans indicate if the OCT images were obtained from averaged 100 B-scans, same measure time indicates if the patients had OCT during the same period of time, NA indicates not available.
