Research Article
Changes in Retinal Vasculature and Thickness after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography
Table 2
Vessel density (%) before and after SMILE with OCTA.
| | Follow-up visits | Before surgery | 1 day after surgery | 2 weeks after surgery | 1 month after surgery | |
| Peripapillary | 51.07 ± 3.22 | 51.84 ± 2.80 | 52.29 ± 3.90 | 51.42 ± 3.24 | 0.3345 |
| SCP | | | | | | Fovea | 21.19 ± 7.17 | 18.65 ± 7.14 | 20.50 ± 7.43 | 20.95 ± 7.31 | 0.2736 | Parafovea | 52.91 ± 8.13 | 48.97 ± 4.66 | 52.75 ± 4.94 | 53.25 ± 3.98 | 0.0001 | Perifovea | 51.77 ± 3.40 | 48.45 ± 3.53 | 51.19 ± 3.57 | 51.25 ± 3.27 | 0.0001 |
| DCP | | | | | | Fovea | 36.49 ± 9.35 | 33.26 ± 7.85 | 36.23 ± 7.94 | 36.33 ± 7.75 | 0.1590 | Parafovea | 56.02 ± 4.64 | 51.13 ± 4.45 | 55.41 ± 4.33 | 55.06 ± 4.39 | <0.0001 | Perifovea | 52.34 ± 6.89 | 44.57 ± 5.74 | 51.10 ± 6.66 | 50.84 ± 7.17 | 0.0001 |
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SMILE, small incision lenticule extraction; OCTA, optical coherence tomography angiography; SCP, superficial retinal capillary plexus; DCP, deep retinal capillary plexus.
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