Prevalence data for total corneal astigmatism in cataract patients

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PURPOSE: To report the prevalence data for total corneal astigmatism (TCA) in cataract patients.

METHODS: The authors retrospectively collected and analyzed the preoperative biometric data of the patients who underwent cataract surgery in the Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University Third Hospital, from January 2019 to May 2023.

RESULTS: The mean age of the 10817 patients was 71 ± 10 years; the male/female ratio was 4653/6164. The mean TCA obtained by the IOLMaster 700 (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena, Germany), the Abulafia-Koch (AK) formula, and the Barrett toric calculator was 1.11 ± 0.81 diopter (D), 1.13 ± 0.75 D, and 1.12 ± 0.74 D respectively, which was significantly greater than the mean standard keratometric (K) astigmatism (0.99 ± 0.75 D) obtained by IOLMaster 700. Against-the-rule (ATR) astigmatism was dominant in all the TCA measurements, and its proportion increased with age. TCA measurements by different methods exhibit high variability, with a total of 1574 (8.9%) data sets from 1016 (9.4%) patients showing a difference larger than 0.5 D in at least one pair of TCA measurements.

CONCLUSION: The use of TCA rather than K astigmatism significantly influenced the choice of intraocular lenses (IOLs) as more patients would be candidates for toric IOLs. It was essential to carefully compare and select TCA obtained with multiple methods for optimal postoperative visual quality.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie - (2024) vom: 13. Apr.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bian, Linbo [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Baikai [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Zhengze [VerfasserIn]
Li, Wenlong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yiyun [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiawei [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Yunke [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Hong [VerfasserIn]

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Astigmatism
Cataract
Corneal
Journal Article
Prevalence

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Date Revised 13.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1007/s00417-024-06488-9

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NLM371030005