Abstract

MARTINEZ LEGON, Zoila C; NINAJA CRUZ, Dominga  and  TRIANA CASADO, Idalia. Surface technique (LASEK) in patients with high myopia. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.10, pp. 1395-1402. ISSN 1029-3019.

Introduction: at present, one of the great challenges of ophthalmology is to find the adequate treatment for the patients with high myopia. Objective: to identify the clinical course of these affected patients according to the visual results and the presence of postoperative complications. Methods: A descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study of 22 patients (33 eyes) with high myopia, between -6,00 and -10,00 diopters, assisted in the Service of Refractive Surgery of the Ophthalmological Center from "Enrique Cabrera" Teaching General Hospital in Havana, operated by means of the LASEK surface technique was carried out from January, 2010 to June, 2011. Results: the age group 20-29 years (54.5%), the female sex (72.7%) and the haze (45.5%) as postoperative complication prevailed. Most of the patients (97.0%) reached a visual acuity with correction (between 0.6 and 1.0) in the postoperative period; 60.6% with spherical equivalent (between -1.00 and 0.25 diopters) and 69.7% with queratometric values of 39,05 - 43,00 diopters. Conclusions: the LASEK was effective in the correction of high myopia, with certain complications, but without negative result in the final vision reached and in the satisfaction after the procedure

Keywords : surface surgery; LASEK; high myopia; postoperative period; secondary health care.

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