Incidence and predisposing factors of anterior chamber gas bubbles during femtosecond laser flap creation
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Muanploy Niparugs. Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. mniparugs@gmail.com

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    AIM: To investigate the incidence and the predisposing factors of anterior chamber (AC) gas bubbles during femtosecond laser (FS) flap creation for laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). METHODS: All patients who underwent FS-LASIK surgery at CMU LASIK Center between January 2013 and May 2016 were retrospective reviewed. Preoperative and intraoperative data including keratometry, white-to-white (WTW) corneal diameter, flap parameters (diameter, thickness, hinge position, and tunnel length) and pulse energy were reviewed and compared between incident group and control group. To determine the risk factors, univariate and multivariate conditional logistic regression were used; the eye was unit of analysis. RESULTS: The incidence of AC gas bubbles was 1.6% (22 out of 1378 eyes). The median WTW in the AC bubbles group was 11.5 mm (range 11.1-12.1), which was significantly different from the control group (11.7 mm, range 10.5-12.8, P=0.021). The result of the median WTW minus the flap diameter in the AC bubbles group was 2.5 mm (range 2.1-3.2), which was statistically different to the control group (2.7 mm, range 1.5-3.8, P=0.008). The logistic regression analysis showed that the result of the WTW minus the flap diameter in the AC bubbles group had an adjusted odds ratio of 0.204 (95%CI; 0.056-0.747, P=0.016). CONCLUSION: Development of AC gas bubbles during FS flap creation is not an uncommon event in Asian eyes which typically have a small WTW. The flap diameter when adjusted relatively to the WTW is a predisposing factor to the possibility of AC gas bubbles occurrence.

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Muanploy Niparugs, Sumet Supalaset, Chulaluck Tangmonkongvoragul, et al. Incidence and predisposing factors of anterior chamber gas bubbles during femtosecond laser flap creation. Int J Ophthalmol, 2020,13(8):1334-1337

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  • Received:June 12,2019
  • Revised:February 12,2020
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  • Online: June 22,2020
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