The Axial Length And Anterior Chamber Depth In Patients With Cataract: A Study Of Hungarian, Kosovan, And Brazilian Populations
Published 2025 - 43rd Congress of the ESCRS
Reference: PO281 | Type: Free paper | DOI: 10.82333/effz-0k08
Authors: James Katz* 1 , Paul Harasymowycz 2 , Mark Lobanoff 3
1The Midwest Center for Sight,Chicago,United States, 2Ophthalmology,University of Montreal,Montreal,Canada, 3OVO LASIK + LENS,Minneapolis,United States
Purpose
This study aims to compare the AL and ACD between Hungarian, Kosovan, and Brazilian patients with cataract and predict the possible factors that play a role in these differences.
Setting
This is a comparative cross-sectional observational study including pre-operative biometric parameters measured with LenStar900 in patients from Hungary, Kosovo, and Brazil who were scheduled to undergo cataract surgery.
Methods
All the biometric measurments were done using the LenStar900 optical biometer in 2043 patients from 3 countries.STATA and SPSS 27.0 were used to conduct a statistical analysis of the data.
Results
We performed biometric measurements of 2043 eyes of patients with cataract. There was a statistically significant 1% (p = 0.000) negative correlation between age and both biometric parameters (AL and ACD) in the Hungarian subjects, while there was a statistically significant negative correlation between age and ACD in the Kosovan subjects. The difference in AL between the Hungarian patients and the Kosovan and Brazilian patients was statistically significant (p = 0.000); however, no statistically significant difference was found in the axial length between the Kosovan and Brazilian subjects. There was no statistically significant difference in the ACD between all three groups (p = 0.631).
Conclusions
There are statistically significant differences in the evaluated biometric parameters between the three groups of patients which could be attributed to demographic and social factors specific to each group.