Photorefractive keratectomy for the treatment of purely refractive accommodative XXXX .

@entity1 @entity3467 @entity5971
PURPOSE: To evaluate the results of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) for the treatment of young adult @entity1 with purely refractive accommodative @entity5971 . SETTING: Private practice and university hospital, Milan, Italy. METHODS: The medical records of consecutive @entity1 who had PRK for @entity3467 associated with purely refractive @entity5971 were reviewed retrospectively. Preoperative and postoperative visual acuity, alignment, and sensory data were recorded and analyzed. Surgical methods and complications were reviewed. RESULTS: Sixteen eyes of 8 @entity1 were treated. The mean @entity1 age at the time of treatment was 24.6 years (range 17 to 38 years). All @entity1 were followed for 1 year. At the 1-year follow-up evaluation, the uncorrected visual acuity was 20/40 or better in all eyes. No @entity1 lost a line of best spectacle-corrected visual acuity. The mean spherical equivalent was -3.7 diopters (D) preoperatively and -0.7 D postoperatively. All @entity1 were within +/-0.37 D of emmetropia at the 1-year evaluation. Preoperatively, the mean esotropic deviation was 10.75 prism diopters. Postoperatively, all @entity1 were orthophoric without correction. Stereopsis was unaffected by PRK in all @entity1 . There were no intraoperative or postoperative complications. CONCLUSION: Photorefractive keratectomy was an effective treatment for @entity5971 associated with mild to moderate @entity3467 in young adults with purely refractive accommodative @entity5971 . These findings should not be widely applied to @entity1 with accommodative @entity5971 .
