PURPOSE: To report the long-term refractive and optical quality outcomes of patients with intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS) to treat keratoconus and to analyze the results according to the patients' age. SETTING: Vissum Instituto Oftalmologico de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. DESIGN: Case series. METHODS: The uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), manifest refraction, corneal topography, and aberrometry were evaluated before and after ICRS implantation in eyes with keratoconus. The follow-up was 5 years in all cases. RESULTS: The study comprised 51 eyes (35 patients; age range 15 to 56 years). After 6 months, the improvement in the UDVA, CDVA, spherical equivalent, and mean keratometry (K) value was statistically significant (P<.05). Five years postoperatively, these parameters remained unchanged (P=.31). Slight regression (0.97 diopter [D]) was observed in the mean K between 6 months and 5 years; the regression was not statistically significant (P=.39). Anterior corneal aberrometric values decreased; however, the changes were not statistically significant (P ≥.10). Linear regression analysis showed no correlation between the age of the patients and the changes observed in the mean K throughout the follow-up (P>.05, r(2) = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Intrastromal corneal ring segment implantation in keratoconus patients provided long-term improvement of the refractive and topographic status. There was no correlation between the amount of individual changes in the mean K reading and patient age.
PURPOSE: To report the long-term refractive and optical quality outcomes of patients with intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS) to treat keratoconus and to analyze the results according to the patients' age. SETTING: Vissum Instituto Oftalmologico de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. DESIGN: Case series. METHODS: The uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), manifest refraction, corneal topography, and aberrometry were evaluated before and after ICRS implantation in eyes with keratoconus. The follow-up was 5 years in all cases. RESULTS: The study comprised 51 eyes (35 patients; age range 15 to 56 years). After 6 months, the improvement in the UDVA, CDVA, spherical equivalent, and mean keratometry (K) value was statistically significant (P<.05). Five years postoperatively, these parameters remained unchanged (P=.31). Slight regression (0.97 diopter [D]) was observed in the mean K between 6 months and 5 years; the regression was not statistically significant (P=.39). Anterior corneal aberrometric values decreased; however, the changes were not statistically significant (P ≥.10). Linear regression analysis showed no correlation between the age of the patients and the changes observed in the mean K throughout the follow-up (P>.05, r(2) = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Intrastromal corneal ring segment implantation in keratoconus patients provided long-term improvement of the refractive and topographic status. There was no correlation between the amount of individual changes in the mean K reading and patient age.
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