Guerra AM, Garza CJA, Tamargo BTO, Cárdenas DT, Río TM, Cruz ID, Pérez PZ

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ABSTRACT

Objective: to describe the morphological and morphometric characteristics of the corneal endothelium in adults without corneal alterations according to the number of evaluated cells, who had been seen at the refractive survey service of "Ramón Pando Ferrer" Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology from January to February, 2016.
Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional case-series research study of patients seen at the refractive surgery service. After applying the exclusion criteria, the sample was finally made up of 90 eyes from 45 healthy adult patients. SP-3000P non-contact endothelial microscopy was performed to determine the morphological (hexagonality and variability coefficient) and morphometric (cell density and pachymetry) values and the average of the average cellular corneal size according to the number of evaluated cells.
Results: according to the number of evaluated endothelial cells, there were no differences as for the pachymetry in both eyes (p> 0.05). Regarding the cell density, there were no significant differences among the number of evaluated cells in both eyes (p> 0.05). The hexagonality, variability coefficient and average cell size did not show significant differences (p> 0.05) in both eyes according to the number of evaluated cells.
Conclusions: the study of the corneal endothelium using the specular microscope is an effective method that allows to know the characteristics of the endothelial cells without no previous variations, according to the number of evaluated cells.