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Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study

INTRODUCTION: Keratoconus (KCN) is known to affect all ethnicities but its incidence exhibits geographical variability plausibly due to subclinical forms of the disease, differences in diagnostic methods and criteria, or differences in genetic variations in populations. AIM: To examine the prevalenc...

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Autores principales: Bejdic, Nita, Biscevic, Alma, Pjano, Melisa Ahmedbegovic, Ivezic, Borivoje
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Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32410891
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2020.32.46-49
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author Bejdic, Nita
Biscevic, Alma
Pjano, Melisa Ahmedbegovic
Ivezic, Borivoje
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description INTRODUCTION: Keratoconus (KCN) is known to affect all ethnicities but its incidence exhibits geographical variability plausibly due to subclinical forms of the disease, differences in diagnostic methods and criteria, or differences in genetic variations in populations. AIM: To examine the prevalence of keratoconus among the refractive surgery population of Vojvodina, who underwent refractive surgery screening at Eye Clinic Svjetlost Novi Sad, Serbia from September 2018 to September 2019. This is a single-center study. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 876 patients who presented for refractive surgery evaluation. Corneal tomographers represent the gold standard in the detection and classification of corneal ectatic diseases and screening is an essential part of the preoperative diagnostics before any refractive surgery. The corneal tomographer used in this study was a Scheimpflug imaging device (Pentacam AXL, Oculus Optikgeräte GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany). The device was realigned before each measurement. RESULTS: Out of a total number of patients, 619 (70,7%) were candidates for corneal refractive surgery procedure, and 257 patients (29.3%) were not. Out of 257 patients that were not candidates for the procedure 157 (61,0%) patients had thin corneas, high myopia/hypermetropia or had some retinal disease; 75 patients (29,1) were keratoconus suspect and 25 patients (9,7%) had keratoconus. KCN patients had a mean age of 29.5 ± 7.7 years, 18 patients (72.0%) were male and 7 patients were female (28%). CONCLUSION: The most cited annual incidence of KCN is 2 approximately 1 per 2,000. Recent data from the biggest Netherland study revealed many different epidemiological results which deprive keratoconus of the community of rare diseases. The incidence of keratoconus in Vojvodina refractive surgery population presented in our Clinic was 2.9%.
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spelling pubmed-72197172020-05-14 Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study Bejdic, Nita Biscevic, Alma Pjano, Melisa Ahmedbegovic Ivezic, Borivoje Mater Sociomed Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Keratoconus (KCN) is known to affect all ethnicities but its incidence exhibits geographical variability plausibly due to subclinical forms of the disease, differences in diagnostic methods and criteria, or differences in genetic variations in populations. AIM: To examine the prevalence of keratoconus among the refractive surgery population of Vojvodina, who underwent refractive surgery screening at Eye Clinic Svjetlost Novi Sad, Serbia from September 2018 to September 2019. This is a single-center study. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 876 patients who presented for refractive surgery evaluation. Corneal tomographers represent the gold standard in the detection and classification of corneal ectatic diseases and screening is an essential part of the preoperative diagnostics before any refractive surgery. The corneal tomographer used in this study was a Scheimpflug imaging device (Pentacam AXL, Oculus Optikgeräte GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany). The device was realigned before each measurement. RESULTS: Out of a total number of patients, 619 (70,7%) were candidates for corneal refractive surgery procedure, and 257 patients (29.3%) were not. Out of 257 patients that were not candidates for the procedure 157 (61,0%) patients had thin corneas, high myopia/hypermetropia or had some retinal disease; 75 patients (29,1) were keratoconus suspect and 25 patients (9,7%) had keratoconus. KCN patients had a mean age of 29.5 ± 7.7 years, 18 patients (72.0%) were male and 7 patients were female (28%). CONCLUSION: The most cited annual incidence of KCN is 2 approximately 1 per 2,000. Recent data from the biggest Netherland study revealed many different epidemiological results which deprive keratoconus of the community of rare diseases. The incidence of keratoconus in Vojvodina refractive surgery population presented in our Clinic was 2.9%. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2020-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7219717/ /pubmed/32410891 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2020.32.46-49 Text en © 2020 Nita Bejdic, Alma Biscevic, Melisa Ahmedbegovic Pjano, Borivoje Ivezic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bejdic, Nita
Biscevic, Alma
Pjano, Melisa Ahmedbegovic
Ivezic, Borivoje
Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study
title Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study
title_full Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study
title_fullStr Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study
title_full_unstemmed Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study
title_short Incidence of Keratoconus in Refractive Surgery Population of Vojvodina - Single Center Study
title_sort incidence of keratoconus in refractive surgery population of vojvodina - single center study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32410891
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2020.32.46-49
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