ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2020
Quality of life impact of refractive correction (QIRC) results three years after SMILE and FS-LASIK.
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- Impact of Refractive Surgery on Visual Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction: A Six-Month Assessment in Palestine.Cureus · 2025Article
- Patient Preferences and Satisfaction With Refractive Error Correction Methods: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2025Article
- Comparison of long-term changes in the effective optical zone following SMILE and FS-LASIK for moderate and high myopia.BMC ophthalmology · 2024Article
- The Minimally Important Difference (MID) in Visual Acuity That Represents Changes in Patients' Quality of Life.Cureus · 2024Review
- Effective optical zone following small incision lenticule extraction: a review.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2024Review
- The effect of femtosecond laser-assistedFrontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Post-laser refractive surgery keratitis: A concise narrative review.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Review
- Quality of vision after myopic refractive surgeries: SMILE, FS-LASIK, and ICL.BMC ophthalmology · 2023Article
- The effect of small incision lenticule extraction on contrast sensitivity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- 2020 and beyond - Connotation for refractive surgery.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2020Article
- Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version of Quality of Life Impact of Refractive Correction Questionnaire.Journal of current ophthalmologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to compare long-term postoperative quality of life and satisfaction differences between SMILE and FS-LASIK for myopia correction.
methodsThis cross-sectional study enrolled patients under the age of 39 years, who chose to undergo SMILE or FS-LASIK surgery to both eyes 3 years previously. Patients completed a common vision test and Quality of Life Impact of Refractive Correction (QIRC) questionnaire, together with the surgical satisfaction, adverse symptoms subjective survey. Patients with preoperative corrected distance visual acuity and postoperative uncorrected distance visual acuity of 20/20 or greater were included. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to match the preoperative and postoperative spherical equivalent, age, and designed optical zones of the left and right eyes between the two groups.
resultsForty-nine patients were included in each group after PSM from 188 patients. No significant difference in the total QIRC score was found between the SMILE and FS-LASIK groups (45.89 ± 5.91 vs 45.09 ± 5.65, p = 0.492). There were no differences in surgical satisfaction between the groups (p = 0.178). Compared to the SMILE group, the FS-LASIK group had more glare (2.12 ± 2.25 vs 3.22 ± 2.54, p = 0.026) and severe dryness (1.80 ± 1.98 vs 2.79 ± 2.19, p = 0.021).
conclusionPostoperative quality of life is similar after SMILE or FS-LASIK. Dry eye symptoms and glare were milder in the SMILE group than in the FS-LASIK group.
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