Research Article

Effect of Repeated Intravitreal Ranibizumab and Aflibercept Injections on the Cornea in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Table 3

Morphometric analysis of the corneal endothelial cell density (ECD), the percentage of hexagonal cells (% Hex), the coefficient of variation of cell size (CoV), and central corneal thickness (CCT) in the treated eye before and after aflibercept injections (AI).

Aflibercept injection (AI)
Before 1st AI
Mean ± SD
After 1st AI
Mean ± SD
After 2nd AI
Mean ± SD
After 3rd AI
Mean ± SD
6 m after 1st AI
Mean ± SD

ECD (cells/mm2)2488.3 ± 492.92455.7 ± 497.72425.5 ± 496.12402.3 ± 488.52348.1 ± 473.5
% Hex52.6 ± 8.751.5 ± 7.951.4 ± 7.150.4 ± 7.949.3 ± 7.8
CoV36.1 ± 6.7366.3 ± 5.936.4 ± 5.837.1 ± 5.337.6 ± 5.5
CCT (µm)556.1 ± 40.7559.9 ± 41.4555.6 ± 43.1555.3 ± 45.9552.1 ± 48.2