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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Screening of Keratoconus Using Autokeratometer and Keratometer Keratoconus Index.

Takashi Kojima, Naoki Isogai, Tomoya Nishida, Tomoaki Nakamura, Kazuo Ichikawa

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Artificial intelligence for detecting keratoconus.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Takashi KojimaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinanomachi 35, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5016-0155
Naoki IsogaiNagoya Eye Clinic, Nagoya 456-0003, Japan.
Tomoya NishidaNagoya Eye Clinic, Nagoya 456-0003, Japan.
Tomoaki NakamuraNagoya Eye Clinic, Nagoya 456-0003, Japan.
Kazuo IchikawaChukyo Eye Clinic, Nagoya 456-0032, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The keratometer keratoconus index (KKI) is a diagnostic index for the risk of keratoconus calculated from autokeratometer test values. We partially modified the KKI equation and assessed it without limiting the target age and severity of keratoconus. This retrospective study included 179 eyes of 99 patients with keratoconus and 468 eyes from 235 normal controls. In the modified KKI, oblique astigmatism or against-the-rule astigmatism was defined as ≥1D astigmatism. KKI diagnostic power was analyzed in subgroups of <50 and ≥50-year-old patients, and at different keratoconus stages. Although the sensitivity of modified KKI was comparable with that of original KKI (92.7% vs. 95.5%), modified KKI specificity was significantly higher (79.7% vs. 68.6%) (

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astigmatismautokeratometerdiagnosiskeratoconuskeratometer keratoconus index (KKI)

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PMID34829466
PMCPMC8619968

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