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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 LIST OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS 8 ABBREVIATIONS 9 ABSTRACT 11 1 INTRODUCTION 13 2 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 14 2.1 GROSS CORNEAL ANATOMY 14 2.1.1 Tear film 14 2.1.2 Corneal structure 14 2.1.3 Corneal innervation 16 2.2 REFRACTIVE ERRORS 17 2.3 EXCIMER LASER 18 2.3.1 Principle 18 2.3.2 Interaction of excimer laser with the cornea 19 2.3.3 Phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) 19 2.3.4 Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) 20 2.3.5 Laser assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) 20 2.4 CORNEAL WOUND HEALING 22 2.5 PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF REFRACTIVE SURGERY 25 2.6 VISUAL ACUITY AND REFRACTIVE RESULTS AFTER EXCIMER LASER SURGERY 26 2.6.1 PRK outcomes 26 2.6.2 LASIK outcomes 29 2.6.3 Comparison of myopic outcomes after PRK and LASIK 29 2.7 PRK AND LASIK COMPLICATIONS 31 4
3 AIMS OF THE STUDY 35 4 PATIENTS AND METHODS 36 4.1 PATIENTS 36 4.2 PROTOCOLS 37 4.3 METHODS 37 4.3.1 PRK/LASIK preoperative therapy 37 4.3.2 PTK procedure 37 4.3.3 PRK procedure 38 4.3.4 LASIK procedure 38 4.3.5 PTK/PRK postoperative therapy 38 4.3.6 LASIK postoperative therapy 38 4.3.7 Study subjects 39 4.3.8 Statistical methods 40 5 RESULTS 42 5.1 STUDY I AND II (PRK and LASIK long-term follow-up) 42 Efficacy: 42 PRK 42 LASIK 43 PRK VISX vs. LASIK VISX 43 Safety 44 PRK 44 LASIK 44 PRK VISX vs. LASIK VISX 44 Stability 45 PRK 45 LASIK 45 5
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Page 3: “When you want something, all the
Page 7 and 8: STUDY V. PRK enhancement 58 7 SUMMA
Page 9 and 10: ABBREVIATIONS ArF Argon Fluoride AS
Page 11 and 12: ABSTRACT Although the first procedu
Page 13 and 14: 1 INTRODUCTION Refractive errors ha
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Page 17 and 18: et al. 1991, Gallar et al. 1993, Ta
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Page 23 and 24: Twelve to 24 hours after the onset
Page 25 and 26: 2.5 PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF REFR
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Page 29 and 30: 2.6.2 LASIK outcomes Although LASIK
Page 31 and 32: 2.7 PRK AND LASIK COMPLICATIONS Exc
Page 33 and 34: Dry eye Dry eye is one of the most
Page 35 and 36: 3 AIMS OF THE STUDY The general pur
Page 37 and 38: 4.2 PROTOCOLS The patients included
Page 39 and 40: 4.3.7 Study subjects 4.3.7.1 Study
Page 41 and 42: with the post hoc Dunn multiple com
Page 43 and 44: LASIK UCVA ≤0.0 was achieved post
Page 45 and 46: Table 6 Safety postoperative values
Page 47 and 48: 5.2 STUDIES III AND IV. Regular and
Page 49 and 50: Stability PRK Mean MRSE at six mont
Page 51 and 52: 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 Normalized Error
Page 53 and 54: Safety Nine eyes out of eleven gain
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±1.00 D of the intended correction
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a tendency to overcorrection in MRS
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7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS The prese
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I am grateful to Ms. Elina Haapanie
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Azar DT and Farah SG (1998): Laser
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Donnenfeld ED, Ehrenhaus M, Solomon
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Hay ED (1979): Development of the v
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Kornmehl EW, Steinert RF and Puliaf
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McDonald MB, Kaufman HE, Frantz JM,
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Pallikaris IG, Kymionis GD, Panagop
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Sakimoto T, Rosenblatt MI and Azar
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Toda I, Asano-Kato N, Komai-Hori Y
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ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS 79
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