Poster prize winners 18th ESCRS winter Meeting

A re-examination of autorefraction after cataract surgery and the results achieved with small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) were the topics of the winning poster in the cataract and refractive categories respectively in the poster competition at the 18th ESCRS  winter Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

In the winning poster in the cataract category, Kunal Gadhvi MD,UK compared the findings of subjective autorefraction and objective retinoscopy in 43 patients who had undergone  cataract surgery .

they found that , in general, there was no significant difference between the two measurements regarding spherical equivalent, although there were a few outliers with difference of up to 2.0 D. There was a significant difference between the two types measurement regarding cylinder which was +43 D higher with autorefraction   (p<0.001).

In the winning poster in the refractive category,  Paula Verdaguer MD, Spain. and associates compared visual outcomes in 35 patients with the small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) technique performed at 4 different depths, 130 µm, 140 µm, 150 µm and 160 µm using the Carl Zeiss Meditec AG VisuMax femtosecond laser system.

They found that there were no significant differences between the four groups in terms of visual acuity, refractive outcomes or complication rates using the four different deepness of SMILE procedure. Overall, patients’ mean postoperative UCVA was 0.76 and was 20/25 in 70 per cent of patients. In addition, mean postoperative spherical equivalent SE was -0.22D and mean postoperative cylinder was 0.20D (SD 0.55). In addition, there were no complications in any of the groups.

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