Paying attention to the impact of anti-inflammatory eye drops on corneal biomechanical parameters / 中华实验眼科杂志

ABSTRACT

Corneal refractive surgery continues to develop accompanied by a rapid advance in scientific knowledge and technology.Improvement in visual quality after corneal refractive surgery is an issue of increasing concerns.Furthermore,corneal biomechanical alteration after corneal refractive surgery is a new problem.Corneal biomechanical parameters vary upon not only the quality of refractive surgery,but also the human physiological cycles and application of some postoperative drugs.These effects are sometimes very important factors for 'unstable'outcomes.At present,much attention has been focused on the change of corneal biomechanics after operation,but the event of postoperative application of anti-inflammatory eye drops leading to ocular hypertension,refractive regression,even visual quality decline is still not well understood.Herein,the therapeutic effects and adverse responses of topical anti-inflammatory eye drops,especially the change in characteristics of corneal biomechanics after corneal refractive surgery,as well as the application of topical anti-inflammatory eye drops were discussed.It is essential that corneal refractive surgeons should fully understand the potential impact of anti-inflammatory eye drops on corneal biomechanics after corneal refractive surgery.