Research Article

Evaluation of Wide Corneal Epithelial Remodeling after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) with Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 2

Clinical features and refractive outcomes before and after SMILE.

Preoperative1 day postop1 week postop1 month postop3 months postop6 months postop

UDVA (logMAR)1.04 ± 0.300.01 ± 0.12−0.03 ± 0.07−0.06 ± 0.07−0.08 ± 0.09−0.10 ± 0.08
(0.30 to 1.52)(−0.20 to 0.20)(−0.20 to 0.20)(−0.20 to 0.10)(−0.20 to 0.1)(−0.20 to 0)
CDVA (logMAR)‒0.12 ± 0.06−0.10 ± 0.05−0.12 ± 0.06−0.13 ± 0.07
(‒0.20 to 0)(−0.20 to 0.1)(−0.20 to 0)(−0.30 to 0)
Sphere (D)‒5.39 ± 1.920.10 ± 0.190.03 ± 0.210.01 ± 0.16
(‒9.25 to ‒1.00)(−0.50 to 0.50)(−0.75 to 0.50)(−0.50 to 0.50)
Cylinder (D)‒0.73 ± 0.61−0.14 ± 0.20−0.10 ± 0.20−0.09 ± 0.21
(‒2.50 to 0)(−0.50 to 0)(−0.75 to 0.50)(−0.75 to 0.50)
SE (D)‒5.76 ± 2.010.03 ± 0.22−0.02 ± 0.25−0.05 ± 0.22
(‒9.88 to ‒1.25)(−0.75 to 0.50)(−0.75 to 0.75)(−0.75 to 0.75)

UDVA: uncorrected distance; CDVA: corrected distance visual acuity; D: diopters; SE: spherical equivalent. Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation (range).