Surgical Treatment of Epiblepharon Effectively Alleviates Keratopathy but Not Astigmatism: A Case-Control Study Utilizing Vector Analysis in East Asian Children

Table 2

Severity of keratopathy in the two groups at baseline and 6 months after treatment.

	Keratopathy grading	After treatment	6 months after treatment	value
		Number of children (%)
Surgical treatment	Grade 0	0 (0)	30 (71.4)	<0.001
	Grade 1	2 (4.3)	10 (23.8)
	Grade 2	18 (38.3)	2 (4.8)
	Grade 3	27 (57.4)	0 (0)
	Total	47	42
Nonsurgical treatment	Grade 0	0 (0)	3 (11.5)	0.077
	Grade 1	27 (77.1)	21 (80.7)
	Grade 2	5 (14.2)	2 (7.7)
	Grade 3	3 (8.6)	0 (0)
	Total	35	26
value		<0.001	<0.001

Keratopathy grading data were collected from one eye of each child for analysis. For patients with uneven severity in both eyes, the eye with higher grading was collected. If both eyes had equal severity, only right eye was collected. values were calculated by Fisher’s exact test.  < 0.05.