Aims: To compare the vault performance between implantable collamer lens (ICL) V4c and Toric ICL (TICL) V4c after implantation and to investigate the affecting factors.
Methods: Sixty-eight eyes from 34 patients with myopia or myopia astigmatism who underwent implantation of TICL in one eye (group A) and identically sized ICL (group B) in the contralateral eye were included. Mean follow-up time were 7.58 ± 1.63 months (range: 6-10 months). Vault was compared between the two groups and correlations between vault and age, preoperative ocular biometric measurements were analysed. Generalized estimating equation (GEE) model of postoperative vault adjusting for within-patient intereye correlations was performed.
Results: The safety indices were 1.27 and 1.35, and the efficacy indices were 1.20 and 1.24 for groups A and B, respectively. Vault of TICL was significantly higher than that of ICL (554.11 ± 219.36 μm vs 449.70 ± 172.47 μm, P < 0.001). The difference between ICL/TICL size and WTW (size-WTW) and STS (size-STS), anterior chamber depth and pupil diameter (PD) were positively correlated with vault. Patient age and clear lens rise measured by Pentacam were negatively correlated with vault. Results of GEE model showed preoperative PD, age, cylindrical power of TICL and size-WTW were influencing factors for postoperative vault.
Conclusions: Vault after TICL implantation is higher than that with ICL. PD, age, cylindrical power of TICL and size-WTW could affect postoperative vault.
Keywords: Vault; implantable collamer lens; myopia; pupil diameter.
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