Rodriguez-Lara E, Escobar-Guinea H, Rodriguez-Pérez JP

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 293-295
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ABSTRACT

Purpose: To analyze the indications, surgical technique, results and complications of LASIK in pediatric patients operated at Clinica de Ojos de Tijuana.
Materials and Methods: Thirty-two patients (sixty-one eyes) were submitted to a LASIK procedure from 1997 to 2004. All patients had high refractive errors, accommodative endotropia, anisometropia, relative amblyopia or contact lens or spectacle intolerance. Topical anesthesia was used in 27 patients.
Results: Patients included in this study had the following characteristics: average age, 13 years, 29 patients were submitted to bilateral LASIK, 3 patients were submitted to LASIK in one eye, and average follow-up of 21 months. Average pre-operative uncorrected visual acuity was 20/400 and post-operative uncorrected visual acuity was 20/30. Average pre-operative spherical equivalent was –11.21 for myopes, +4.30 for hyperopes, and –0.12 for mixted astigmatism. Average post-operative spherical equivalent was –1.4 for myopes, +0.39 for hyperopes, and –0.09 for mixted astigmatism patients. No complications occurred during the LASIK procedure. One patient had a late post-operative complication.
Conclusion: LASIK is a safe procedure, easily performed in a pediatric population with topical anesthesia. Refractive and visual outcome was shown to be stable during the follow-up period.

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