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Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study

PURPOSE: To measure, quantify and compare Ocular Aberrations due to nuclear cataracts. SETTING: Department of ophthalmology and school for ophthalmic technicians, college of medicine and health sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. DESIGN: Retrospective case controlled study. METHODS: 11...

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Autores principales: Wali, Upender K., Bialasiewicz, Alexander A., Al-Kharousi, Nadia, Rizvi, Syed G., Baloushi, Habiba
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20142953
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.48858
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author Wali, Upender K.
Bialasiewicz, Alexander A.
Al-Kharousi, Nadia
Rizvi, Syed G.
Baloushi, Habiba
author_facet Wali, Upender K.
Bialasiewicz, Alexander A.
Al-Kharousi, Nadia
Rizvi, Syed G.
Baloushi, Habiba
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description PURPOSE: To measure, quantify and compare Ocular Aberrations due to nuclear cataracts. SETTING: Department of ophthalmology and school for ophthalmic technicians, college of medicine and health sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. DESIGN: Retrospective case controlled study. METHODS: 113 eyes of 77 patients with nuclear cataract (NC) were recruited from outpatient clinic of a major tertiary referral center for Ophthalmology. Patients having NC with no co-existing ocular pathologies were selected. All patients were subjected to wavefront aberrometry (make) using Hartmann-Shack (HS) aberrometer. Consents were taken from all patients. Higher order Aberrations (HOA) were calculated with Zernike polynomials up to the fourth order. For comparison 28 eyes of 15 subjects with no lenticular opacities (control group) were recruited and evaluated in an identical manner. No pupillary mydriasis was done in both groups. RESULTS: Total aberrations were almost six times higher in NC group compared to control (normal) subjects. The HOA were 21 times higher in NC group, and coma was significantly higher in NC eyes compared to normal (control) group. The pupillary diameter was significantly larger in control group (5.48mm ± 1.0024, p<.001) compared to NC (3.05mm ± 1.9145) subjects (probably due to younger control age group). Amongst Zernike coefficients up to fourth order, two polynomials, defocus (Z(2)(0)) and spherical aberration (Z(4)(2)) were found to be significantly greater amongst NC group, compared to normal control group. CONCLUSION: Nuclear cataracts predominantly produce increased defocus and spherical aberrations. This could explain visual symptoms like image deterioration in spite of normal Visual acuity.
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spelling pubmed-28135742010-02-08 Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study Wali, Upender K. Bialasiewicz, Alexander A. Al-Kharousi, Nadia Rizvi, Syed G. Baloushi, Habiba Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Original Article PURPOSE: To measure, quantify and compare Ocular Aberrations due to nuclear cataracts. SETTING: Department of ophthalmology and school for ophthalmic technicians, college of medicine and health sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. DESIGN: Retrospective case controlled study. METHODS: 113 eyes of 77 patients with nuclear cataract (NC) were recruited from outpatient clinic of a major tertiary referral center for Ophthalmology. Patients having NC with no co-existing ocular pathologies were selected. All patients were subjected to wavefront aberrometry (make) using Hartmann-Shack (HS) aberrometer. Consents were taken from all patients. Higher order Aberrations (HOA) were calculated with Zernike polynomials up to the fourth order. For comparison 28 eyes of 15 subjects with no lenticular opacities (control group) were recruited and evaluated in an identical manner. No pupillary mydriasis was done in both groups. RESULTS: Total aberrations were almost six times higher in NC group compared to control (normal) subjects. The HOA were 21 times higher in NC group, and coma was significantly higher in NC eyes compared to normal (control) group. The pupillary diameter was significantly larger in control group (5.48mm ± 1.0024, p<.001) compared to NC (3.05mm ± 1.9145) subjects (probably due to younger control age group). Amongst Zernike coefficients up to fourth order, two polynomials, defocus (Z(2)(0)) and spherical aberration (Z(4)(2)) were found to be significantly greater amongst NC group, compared to normal control group. CONCLUSION: Nuclear cataracts predominantly produce increased defocus and spherical aberrations. This could explain visual symptoms like image deterioration in spite of normal Visual acuity. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2813574/ /pubmed/20142953 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.48858 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wali, Upender K.
Bialasiewicz, Alexander A.
Al-Kharousi, Nadia
Rizvi, Syed G.
Baloushi, Habiba
Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study
title Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study
title_full Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study
title_fullStr Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study
title_full_unstemmed Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study
title_short Subjective and Quantitative Measurement of Wavefront Aberrations in Nuclear Cataracts – A Retrospective Case Controlled Study
title_sort subjective and quantitative measurement of wavefront aberrations in nuclear cataracts – a retrospective case controlled study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20142953
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.48858
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