Night Vision after Excimer Laser Photorefractive Keratectomy: Haze and Halos

Author:

O'Brart D.P.S.1,Lohmann C.P.12,Fitzke F.W.3,Smith S.E.4,Kerr-Muir M.G.1,Marshall J.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ophthalmology, St. Thomas’ Hospital

2. University Eye Clinic, Regensberg - Germany, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London - U.K.

3. The Institute of Ophthalmology, St. Thomas’ Hospital

4. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London - U.K.

Abstract

A series of 85 patients with myopia, up to −6.00D, was treated by photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), using a 5 mm diameter ablation zone. At six months, 38 patients (45%) reported slight disturbances of night vision, nine (11%) of whom had significant problems. Perturbations of night vision after PRK are seen as starbursts and halos around lights. Corneal haze produces the starbursts, which are usually transient. In contrast, halos are myopic blur circles and may be persistent. Using a computer program, halos after PRK were found to be significantly larger than those in emmetropes and myopes corrected with spectacles (p < 0.01). The halos were diminished by using either artificial pupils or negative lens over-correction. In patients with identical bilateral PRK corrections, except for the ablation zone size, the magnitude of the halo was less with 5 mm than 4 mm zones (p < 0.01). Patients treated with 5 mm reported fewer problems attributable to halo than with the 4 mm ablation diameters (p < 0.01). Halos and pupil diameters were measured in nine patients with significant impairment of night vision haze. Those with starbursts had small hyperopic shifts, minimal halos and high haze and light scatter measurements, whilst patients with halos had large hyperopic shifts, little haze and large pupil diameters. Patients with persistent halo problems benefited from either negative lens over-correction or miotics at night.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Ophthalmology,General Medicine

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