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AuthorsWaseem Aalam, MD; William May, MD; Sultan Alrashidi, MD; Abdul Elah al Towerki, MD;
Rajiv Khandekar, MS, PG Dip; Yassine Daoud, MD
The authors have no financial interest to disclose
COMPARISON OF WOUND SEALING IN SINGLE PLANAR AND MULTI-PLANAR
FEMTOSECOND LASER CORNEAL CATARACT SURGERY INCISIONS
PURPOSE:
To compare single plane (SP) and multi plane (MP) corneal incisions by Femtosecond laser (FL) in terms of invasion of bacterial size particles in response to a pressure challenge.
METHODS:• Two corneal incisions (one SP and one MP) were created using
femtosecond laser on five human eyeballs.
• The eye was brought to physiologic pressure by injections of normal saline with a 30-gauge needle.
• Pressure was checked and found to be between 14mm Hg to 18mm Hg
• India ink was placed on the wounds and washed away .
• The wound was photographed with a millimeter ruler.
METHODS:• The IOP was then reset between 12 to 18 mmHg and the India ink was
again placed on the eye.
• A pressure challenge of 80mm Hg was made with an ophthalmodynamometer (figure 1).
• The ink was washed away.
• A second photograph was taken of the same wound in the same manner.
• Length-wise invasion (LI) and area-wise invasion (AI) of dye was measured by planimetry (figure 2,3) .
• The difference of invasion in SP vs. MP group was compared both with and without pressure challenge.
RESULTS:• The mean rank of LI difference before and after pressure in five
eyes through SP wound was 4.9mm and through MP wound was 6.1mm.
• The observed variation by type of surgical wound making was not statistically significant (p = 0.53).
• The mean rank of AI difference before and after pressure in five eyes through SP wound was 3.8mm2 and through MP wound was 7.2mm2.
• The observed variation by type of surgical wound was statistically significant (p = 0.007).
FIGURE 5: SETTINGS FOR SINGLE-PLANE DEFAULT INCISION ON FEMTOSECOND ASSISTED LASER MACHINE (ALCON LENSEX LASER)
FIGURE 6: SETTINGS FOR MULTI-PLANE DEFAULT INCISION ON FEMTOSECOND ASSISTED LASER MACHINE (ALCON LENSEX LASER)