Clinical Study
Prospective Cohort Study on Refractive Changes after Trabeculectomy
Table 3
Comparison of patient characteristics between the patients with myopic progression and the patients without myopic progression.
| | Characteristics | Myopic progression (n = 22) | Without myopic progression (n = 39) | value |
| | Age, mean (SD) (years) | 73.5 (8.6) | 61.7 (14.6) | 0.003 | | Gender, n (%) | | | 0.18 | | Men | 14 (64) | 17 (44) | | | Women | 8 (36) | 22 (56) | | | Preoperative LogMAR BCVA, mean (SD) | 0.3 (0.3) | 0.2 (0.3) | 0.03 | | Postoperative LogMAR BCVA, mean (SD) | 0.9 (0.6) | 0.3 (0.3) | <0.001 | | Glaucoma type, n (%) | | | <0.001 | | Exfoliation glaucoma | 15 (68) | 8 (20) | | | Other glaucoma types | 7 (32) | 31 (80) | | | Preoperative IOP, mean (SD) (mmHg) | 27.3 (9.1) | 24.8 (9.5) | 0.16 | | Postoperative IOP, mean (SD) (mmHg) | 14.0 (4.4) | 13.2 (2.9) | 0.50 | | Conjunctival incision, n (%) | | | 0.017 | | Fornix-based | 19 (86) | 22 (56) | | | Limbus-based | 3 (14) | 17 (44) | | | Anterior chamber opening duration, mean (SD) (min) | 5.2 (1.6) | 5.3 (1.9) | 0.86 | | Axial length, mean (SD) (mm) | 23.5 (1.6) | 24.8 (2.1) | 0.018 | | Preoperative nuclear color grade | 2.4 (0.7) | 1.8 (0.8) | 0.004 | | Postoperative nuclear color grade | 3.6 (0.8) | 2.0 (1.0) | <0.001 | | Nuclear color grade change | 1.2 (0.8) | 0.2 (0.5) | <0.001 |
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BCVA, best corrected visual acuity; IOP, intraocular pressure; LogMAR, logarithm of minimum angle of resolution; SD, standard deviation.
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