ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2022
A comparative and prospective study of corneal biomechanics after SMILE and FS-LASIK performed on the contralateral eyes of high myopia patients.
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- Changes in posterior corneal elevation and associated factors following small incision lenticule extraction in patients with high myopia and thin cornea: a prospective randomized clinical study.Lasers in medical science · 2025Trial
- A Comparative and Prospective Study of Corneal Consumption and Corneal Biomechanics After SMILE and FS-LASIK Performed on the Contralateral Eyes With High Myopic Astigmatism.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Trial
- Comparison of the visual and optical outcomes after different corneal refractive surgeries for asymmetric corneal astigmatism.International ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Changes in Corneal Biomechanics and Epithelial Thickness in High Myopia Over -8.00D with/without Myopic Regression After Femtosecond Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- The Impact of Small Incision Lenticule Extraction on the Biomechanical Properties of the Cornea: A Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Efficacy and Safety of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery with the Catalys Platform in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Cataract: A Prospective Cohort Study.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2025Article
- Time-dependent changes in corneal biomechanics after small incision lenticule extraction: an in vivo study.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Comparison of corneal consumption in correcting high with-the-rule astigmatism between refractive lenticule extraction and laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2025Article
- Effects of effective optical zone and decentration on visual quality after smile for different astigmatism types.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Comparison of long-term changes in the effective optical zone following SMILE and FS-LASIK for moderate and high myopia.BMC ophthalmology · 2024Article
- 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
- Assessment of Changes in Cap and Residual Stromal Thickness Values during a 6-Month Observation after Refractive Lenticule Extraction Small Incision Lenticule Extraction.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Comparison of early changes in tear film protein profiles after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) and femtosecond LASIK (FS-LASIK) surgery.Clinical proteomics · 2024Article
- Corneal Epithelial Remodeling Induced by Photorefractive Keratectomy Enhancement After Small-Incision Lenticule Extraction.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Article
- Comparison of objective visual quality between SMILE and FS-LASIK in moderate-to-high myopia.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Changes in aberrations and biomechanics after femtosecond laser-assisted laser in situ keratomileusis (FS-LASIK) in eyes with high astigmatism: a retrospective case control study.BMC ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Change in the corneal material mechanical property for small incision lenticule extraction surgery.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Clinical Evaluation of Corneal Biomechanics following Laser Refractive Surgery in Myopic Eyes: A Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Refractive corrective surgery for highly myopic eyes.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: To compare the corneal biomechanical changes after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) and femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (FS-LASIK) with the same programmed optical zone (POZ) and similar refractive correction in patients with high myopia. Methods: In this prospective comparative study of the contralateral eye, 50 patients with high myopia with the same POZ and similar refractive correction who underwent SMILE in one eye and FS-LASIK in the other eye. Corneal biomechanical parameters and central corneal thickness (CCT) were measured using a Corvis ST II. All the patients were evaluated during follow-up visits beyond one year. Additionally, the corneal volume (CV) of the 10-mm diameter region was measured using a Pentacam. Results: Ambrosio relational thickness to the horizontal profile (ARTh) and stiffness parameter A1 (SP-A1) decreased significantly after SMILE and FS-LASIK, whereas deformation amplitude ratio 2.0 mm (DA ratio 2.0 mm) and integrated radius (IR) increased significantly in both groups. The ARTh and SP-A1 were greater after SMILE than those after FS-LASIK at all the follow-up visits. In addition, there were greater amounts of CCT and CV after SMILE compared with that after FS-LASIK. Moreover, a positive correlation was found between ARTh and SP-A1 and postoperative CCT, while a negative correlation was found between IR and DA ratio 2.0 mm and postoperative CCT. A moderate correlation was observed between SP-A1 and CV after both SMILE and FS-LASIK, whereas there were no relationships between CV and ARTh, IR, or DA ratio 2.0 mm. Conclusions: SMILE had greater CCT, CV, ARTh, and SP-A1 than FS-LASIK in high myopia with the same POZ and similar refractive correction. Our results demonstrated that SMILE had lesser effect on corneal biomechanics than FS-LASIK in high myopia. Keywords: Corneal biomechanics; Corvis ST II; small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE); femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (FS-LASIK); high myopia.
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