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

SMILE, small incision lenticule extraction; OCTA, optical coherence tomography angiography; SCP, superficial retinal capillary plexus; DCP, deep retinal capillary plexus.