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      Acuidade visual; refração e videoceratografia após a cirurgia do pterígio Translated title: Visual acuity, refraction, and videokeratographic analysis after pterygium surgery

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          RESUMO Objetivo: Avaliar as alterações da acuidade visual, refração e videoceratografia após 2ª cirurgia do pterígio. Material e Métodos: Setenta e quatro olhos com pterígio nasal primário classificados quanto ao comprimento em: Grupo I - pterígios ≤ 2mm (25 pacientes), Grupo II - pterígios > 2mm < 3,5mm (31pacientes) e Grupo III - pterígios ≥ 3,5mm ≤ 4,6mm (18 pacientes), foram submetidos à remoção cirúrgica do pterígio, utilizando a técnica de transplante livre de conjuntiva autóloga. Em todos os olhos foram realizados os seguintes exames oftalmológicos no pré-operatório e nos 1º, 3º e 6º meses após a cirurgia do pterígio: 1) biomicroscopia, 2) acuidade visual, 3) videoceratografia computadorizada e 4) refração. Resultados: a) Os pacientes dos Grupos II e III apresentaram, entre o período pré-operatório e o 1º, o 3º e o 6º meses após a cirurgia, as seguintes alterações ópticas: aumento da curvatura da córnea, redução do astigmatismo ceratométrico e, conseqüentemente, do astigmatismo refracional com melhora da acuidade visual. Tais alterações não ocorreram nos pacientes do Grupo I; b) No Grupo I predominou o padrão de astigmatismo topográfico regular em todas as etapas estudadas. O mesmo ocorreu no Grupo II, exceto no 1º mês de pós-operatório, quando predominou o padrão de astigmatismo irregular. No Grupo III predominaram os padrões regular e irregular. Conclusões: 1) Pacientes com pterígio ≤ 2mm de comprimento podem receber correção óptica até mesmo antes da remoção cirúrgica da lesão, e aqueles com pterígio > 2mm ≤ 4,6mm somente a partir do 1º mês de pós-operatório; 2) Quanto maior o comprimento do pterígio, maior o astigmatismo ceratométrico induzido e maior sua redução após exérese do pterígio; 3) Quanto maior o comprimento do pterígio, maior a tendência do astigmatismo topográfico ser irregular, mesmo após a remoção cirúrgica da lesão.

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          SUMMARY Purpose: To analyse visual acuity, refraction and videokeratography after pterygium surgery. Methods: Seventy four eyes with primary nasal pterygium were classified according to their length into three Groups: Group I -pterygium ≤ 2mm (25 patients), Group II - pterygium > 2mm < 3,5mm (31 patients) and Group III -pterygium > 3,5mm ≤ 4,6mm (18 patients). The patients underwent surgery for pterygium removal with free conjuntival autograft technique. Visual acuity, refraction and videokeratographic measurements were performed preoperative, one, three and six months after surgery. Results: a) Some optical alterations were observed in Groups II and III preoperatively, first, third and sixth months postoperatively: increasing in corneal curvature, reduction in keratometric astigmatism and, consequently, in refractional astigmatism with improvement in visual acuity; b) In Group I, regular topographic astigmatism predominated in all stages of this study. The same was observed in Group II, except on the first month after surgery when irregular topographic astigmatism predominated. In Group III predominated both regular and irregular topographic astigmatism. Conclusions: 1) Patients with pterygium ≤ 2mm in length can receive optical correction even before surgery for pterygium removal is done, and those with pterygium > 2mm ≤ 4,6mm can only receive it one month after pterygium surgery; 2) The longer the pterygium, the greater is the keratometric astigmatism induced; 3) The longer the pterygium, the more irregular is the topographic astigmatism, even if the lesion was removed.

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          Conjunctival autograft for primary and recurrent pterygia: surgical technique and problem management.

          The surgical technique and postoperative problem management of conjunctival autograft transplantation for advanced primary and recurrent pterygium are reviewed. Problems such as graft edema, corneoscleral dellen, and epithelial inclusion cysts infrequently occur. Corneal astigmatism, Tenon's granuloma, retraction and/or necrosis of the graft, and muscular disinsertion are even less frequently encountered. Limbal-conjunctival autograft for recalcitrant recurrent cases is proposed.
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            Classification of normal corneal topography based on computer-assisted videokeratography.

            We evaluated the topography of 399 normal corneas in 212 subjects with computer-assisted videokeratography. The mean subject age was 37 years (range, 8 to 79 years). Mean spherical equivalent refraction was -1.00 diopters (range, +5.50 to -8.37 diopters). A qualitative classification system for corneal topography was derived based on patterns seen on color-coded topographic maps. Corneas were classified into groups by three independent masked ophthalmologists based on this system. Patterns included round (22.6%), oval (20.8%), symmetric bow tie (17.5%), asymmetric bow tie (32.1%), and irregular (7.1%). All corneas were steeper centrally and flatter peripherally. There was a statistically significant difference among patterns for keratometric astigmatism, but not for spherical equivalent refraction, mean keratometric power, or age of subject. Classification of normal corneal topography is an important step in the process of characterizing the shape of normal and pathologic corneas.
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                Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
                Arq. Bras. Oftalmol.
                Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0004-2749
                1678-2925
                October 1997
                : 60
                : 5
                : 470-476
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                [1] orgnameUniversidade Federal de São Paulo orgdiv1Departamento de Oftalmologia Brazil
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                S0004-27491997000500470
                10.5935/0004-2749.19970026
                a7e13b2f-956e-4635-aa9a-2d515c65ce69

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                Acuidade visual,videokeratography,keratometry,visual acuity,astigmatism,Pterygium - surgery,Videoceratografia,Ceratometria,Refração,Astigmatismo,Pterígio - cirurgia

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