Clinical Outcomes of Accelerated Corneal Cross-Linking for Pediatric Keratoconus

Table 1

Visual and refractive outcomes after accelerated cross-linking in pediatric keratoconus.

	Preoperative					Postoperative					Mean change		value
	Mean	Std. dev	Median	[95% CI]		Mean	Std. dev	Median	[95% CI]		Mean	Std. dev
UDVA (logMAR)	0.56	0.28	0.52	0.39	0.65	0.42	0.29	0.40	0.27	0.53	0.13	0.18	0.0003
CDVA (logMAR)	0.34	0.23	0.3	0.20	0.40	0.28	0.22	0.22	0.12	0.32	0.06	0.13	0.0145
Sphere (D)	−0.50	1.40	0	−0.68	0.68	−0.10	1.01	0	−0.46	0.46	−0.40	0.79	0.0228
Cylinder (D)	−3.02	1.18	−3.00	−3.54	−2.46	−2.73	1.10	−2.63	−3.14	−2.11	−0.29	0.70	0.0395
MRSE (D)	−2.01	1.49	−1.75	−2.44	−1.06	−1.42	1.04	−1.25	−1.73	−0.77	−0.59	0.95	0.0024

UDVA: uncorrected distance visual acuity; CDVA: corrected distance visual acuity; D: diopter; MRSE: manifest refraction spherical equivalent; [95% CI]: 95% confidence interval. Statistically significant increased values . Values in bold are statistically significant.