Aberrações de alta ordem : associação com a idade e erros de refração / Relationship between order aberrations and age and refraction errors

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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Purpose: to evaluate the relationship between high order aberrations and refraction errors, and between high order aberrations and age. Methods: an analytic retrospective study of patients that underwent aberrometry exam was done. All the subjects examined at LADARWAVE® aberrometer at Hospital de Olhos do Paraná from April 2004 to April 2005 were included in this study. The major inclusion criterion was 20/20 or better - corrected or not - visual acuity; and the major exclusion criterion, the presence of previous eye surgery or eye disease. The following variable were analyzed: age, refraction, spherical equivalent, and high order aberrations wich were: coma, spherical aberration, others, and high order root mean square (rms). All data were obtained from LADARWAVE® aberrometry exam, under ciclopegia, taking only 6.5 mm pupil results. High order aberrations up to eight order Zernike´s coefficients were evaluated. Patients were divided in 6 groups according to refraction error and in 3 groups according to age. Results: out of 312 eyes, 201 were studied. The mean age of was 33.9 +- 10.1, varying from 7 to 62 years of age. After statistical analysis, it was observed that among the refraction error groups hyperopic patients with less than -0,75 D astigmatism (group 5) showed a higher amount of spherical aberration, and that hyperopic patients with more than -0,75 D astigmatism (group 6) showed a higher amount of other and high order rms aberrations. In the general comparison between the age groups, the 45 or older group (group C) showed a higher amount of all the aberrations analyzed. Conclusion: a) there was a statiscally significant positive relation between hyperopia - with or without astigmatism - and spherical aberration and high order rms. b) there was a statiscally significant positive relation between age and all aberrations analyzed

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age refraction refração idade optical aberrations aberração (otica)

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