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Comment on "The Success of Cataract Surgery and the Preoperative Measurement of Retinal Function by Electrophysiological Techniques".

Gökhan Özge1, Fatih C Gundogan1, Tarkan Mumcuoğlu1.   

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Year:  2015        PMID: 26858841      PMCID: PMC4691605          DOI: 10.1155/2015/139306

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Ophthalmol        ISSN: 2090-004X            Impact factor:   1.909


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We congratulate An et al. [1] for their study entitled “The Success of Cataract Surgery and the Preoperative Measurement of Retinal Function by Electrophysiological Techniques.” The authors investigated electrophysiologic and clinical data in patients with cataract before and after cataract surgery. The study has a good design and adds valuable data to the literature about objective retinal function in cataract which may be regarded as a public health problem. We have read the paper with great interest. The authors investigated the differences between many parameters and found statistically significant differences between cataract patients and healthy subjects in some of them. We know that as the number of statistical comparisons between two groups increase, the probability of finding a significant difference by chance also increases. This issue is solved somewhat by Bonferroni correction. We wonder whether the authors used Bonferroni correction in the statistical analyses. If they did not use it, Bonferroni correction may change statistically significant P values (values under 0.05) to insignificant range. We suggest that the authors perform the statistical analyses even without categorizing the cataract group into subgroups. The authors may simply compare the cataract group and healthy group in terms of ERG, PVEP, and mfERG parameters. In Figure 4, we see that amplitude of central point mfERG has a significant correlation with preoperative visual acuity. However, amplitude density of mfERG has insignificant correlation with visual acuity. What do the authors mean by these two variables? Both variables have the same unit, that is, nV/deg2.
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1.  The Success of Cataract Surgery and the Preoperative Measurement of Retinal Function by Electrophysiological Techniques.

Authors:  Jing An; Lei Zhang; Yusheng Wang; Zuoming Zhang
Journal:  J Ophthalmol       Date:  2015-10-21       Impact factor: 1.909

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