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- Title
Evaluation of the B/F Ratio Distribution of Cataract Patients Without Corneal Abnormalities and Its Effect on Ocular Parameters.
- Authors
Deng, Michael; Lan, Lina; Tianhui Chen; Min Zhang; Jiahui Chen; Qinghe Jing; Yongxiang Jiang; Chen, Tianhui; Zhang, Min; Chen, Jiahui; Jing, Qinghe; Jiang, Yongxiang
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>To evaluate the distribution of the posterior-anterior corneal radius ratio (B/F ratio; posterior corneal radius/anterior corneal radius) in patients without corneal abnormalities, and to investigate which parameters affect this ratio.<bold>Methods: </bold>Five thousand eyes from 5,000 patients who underwent cataract surgery were recruited to this study. We explored the linear relationship between B/F ratio and 13 variables using Principal Component-Multivariate Linear Regression Analysis.<bold>Results: </bold>The B/F ratio was negatively correlated with the difference between simulated keratometry (SimK) and true net power (TNP), central corneal thickness, spherical aberration (SA), and posterior corneal astigmatism and positively correlated with posterior corneal radius, corneal posterior surface, axial length (AL) and anterior corneal radius. Several variables (central corneal thickness, difference between SimK and TNP and asphericity coefficient (Q-value) of the posterior corneal surface) had the highest loading on the final score. B/F ratio reflects the refractive state and anatomical structure of the cornea: thus, higher B/F ratios were associated with larger posterior corneal surface curvature radius, longer axial length, thinner central corneal thickness, lower high order aberrations of the cornea and SA, and the numerical difference between simK and TNP gradually reduced. In clinical practice, for patients with lower B/F ratio, special care should be taken in the choice of system used for intraocular lens (IOL) measurements.
- Subjects
CORNEA; OPTICAL aberrations; CORNEAL transplantation; CATARACT; INTRAOCULAR lenses; CATARACT surgery; HUMAN abnormalities; ASTIGMATISM; VISUAL accommodation
- Publication
Clinical & Investigative Medicine, 2021, Vol 44, Issue 4, pE46
- ISSN
0147-958X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.25011/cim.v44i4.37197