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The main attributes of cornea which makes it optically important is its ability to maintain its dehydrated state. This corneal dehydration can be achieved and maintained by various factors among which corneal endothelial cell count and morphology play a significant role. Corneal attributes considered in this study i.e. the corneal endothelial cell count and central corneal thickness are extremely variable, and changes are seen even with smaller changes in anterior segment or overall structural changes in eyes. We wanted to compare central corneal thickness in emmetropia and axial myopia and compare corneal endothelial cell count in emmetropia and axial myopia. METHODSThe sample size was decided taking into consideration various prevalence studies. The patients were consecutively recruited for the study considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The subjects were divided into two groups emmetropia and axial myopia and were differentiated on the basis of the axial lengths. Specular microscopy was performed for the subjects and corneal endothelial cell count, morphology and central corneal thickness were measured, and comparative study was performed. RESULTSThis study of 80 eyes shows us that the difference between mean the corneal endothelial cell count between emmetrope (2812.80 cells / mm2) and axial myopes (2653 cells / mm2) is statistically significant where p was < 0.05 while the mean central corneal thickness measurements didn’t show statistically significant change between emmetrope (490.05 microns) and axial myope. (489.37 microns). CONCLUSIONSAxial length has an indirect correlation with the corneal endothelial cell count which is statistically significant. While significant correlation between the central corneal thickness and axial length cannot be established in this study.
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@#AIM:To study the curative efficacy of aspheric intraocular lens implantation after manual nuclear fragmentation in treatment of cataract and its effects on visual acuity. <p>METHODS: Totally 100 patients of cataract who received therapy from May 2013 to May 2016 in our hospital were selected. According to random number table, those patients were divided into the observation group(50 patients 68 eyes)and the control group(50 patients 67 eyes). The observation group was treated with small incision manual discectomy and aspheric intraocular lens implantation, the control group was treated with phacoemulsification cataract extraction and aspheric intraocular lens implantation, the operation effect of two groups were compared. <p>RESULTS: After operation, the corneal endothelial cell counts of the two groups decreased(<i>P</i><0.05); in the observation group, the results were higher than those of the control group at 1 and 3mo after operation(<i>P</i><0.05). In the observation group, the uncorrected visual acuity at 1mo after operation was better than that of the control group(<i>P</i><0.05); there was no significant difference between the two groups in postoperative visual acuity after operation 3mo(<i>P</i>>0.05). At 1mo after surgery, the corneal astigmatism in the observation group was higher than that of the control group(<i>P</i><0.05); there was no significant difference of corneal astigmatism between the two groups at 3mo after operation(<i>P</i>>0.05). The incidence of intraoperative complications and postoperative complications in the observation group were lower than that of the control group(<i>P</i><0.05). <p>CONCLUSION: Aspheric intraocular lens implantation after manual nuclear fragmentation is well for cataract, which can reduce the damage to corneal endothelial cells, the complications rate is low and the postoperative visual acuity recovered well.
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The normal corneal endothelial cell count was measured by the non-contact(Nikon, AS-1, Japan) and contact type(Bio-optic, LSM 2000, USA) specular microscopy. The results of two types were compared to investigate the possible differences in types of specular microscopy. No statistically significant differences were found between the results from the non-contact type and those from the contact type; the mean number of normal Korean corneal endothelial cells according to the age was 2795 in the 2nd decade, 2615 in the 3rd decade, 2463 in the 4th decade, 2283 in the 5th decade, 2119 in the 6th decade, 2019 in the 7th decade and 1920 over the 8th decade.