Evaluation of Wide Corneal Epithelial Remodeling after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) with Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography.

Yiming YePei ChenNa YuLinxi WanMin LanHua ZhengKeming Yu

Published in: Journal of ophthalmology (2022)

An asymmetric lenticule-like pattern of epithelial remodeling occurred in 9 mm diameter cornea at six months after myopic SMILE. The epithelial remodeling may affect the refractive outcomes of SMILE.

Keyphrases

optical coherence tomography
optic nerve
diabetic retinopathy
type diabetes
metabolic syndrome
insulin resistance
wound healing
weight loss