Effect of fibrin glue on corneal lamellar healing and how it correlates to biomechanical properties: biomechanical wavefront analysis and confocal study

Table 1 Summary of corneal biomechanics values at 6 weeks and 3 months for sutured, non-augmented, glued, and control groups

Corneal biomechanics values at 6 weeks and 3 months postoperatively		Sutured	Non-augmented	Glued	Control	P-Value*
		Sutured	Non-augmented	Glued	Control	Sutured Vs. Non-aug.	Sutured Vs. Glued	Non-aug. Vs. Glued	Sutured Vs. Control	Glued Vs. Control	Non-aug. Vs. Control
CH (mmHg)	6 weeks	10.05 ± 0.85	6.61 ± 1.18	9.62 ± 0.98	10.20 ± 1.17	<0.0001	0.27	<0.0001	0.5	0.09	<0.0001
CH (mmHg)	3 months	10.90 ± 0.95	6.49 ± 1.20	10.35 ± 0.92	10.20 ± 1.17	<0.0001	0.11	<0.0001	0.08	0.87	<0.0001
CRF (mmHg)	6 weeks	9.20 ± 1.16	6.04 ± 1.35	9.45 ± 1.26	9.86 ± 0.96	<0.0001	0.61	<0.0001	0.07	0.2	<0.0001
CRF (mmHg)	3 months	10.00 ± 1.14	5.80 ± 1.00	9.87 ± 1.15	9.86 ± 0.96	<0.0001	0.76	<0.0001	0.67	0.98	<0.0001
CCT (μm)	6 weeks	395.92 ± 7.67	401.00 ± 10.37	392.50 ± 12.06	393.14 ± 14.30	0.18	0.42	0.08	0.5	0.9	0.09
CCT (μm)	3 months	389.50 ± 5.50	395.66 ± 9.73	390.08 ± 9.33	393.14 ± 14.30	0.07	0.85	0.16	0.4	0.5	0.58
IOPcc (mmHg)	6 weeks	15.82 ± 2.44	16.04 ± 2.59	15.25 ± 1.39	15.35 ± 1.50	0.83	0.48	0.36	0.4	0.8	0.3
IOPcc (mmHg)	3 months	15.94 ± 1.84	15.77 ± 2.64	15.30 ± 1.18	15.35 ± 1.50	0.85	0.33	0.58	0.3	0.94	0.53
IOPg (mmHg)	6 weeks	15.30 ± 2.40	15.00 ± 2.63	14.52 ± 1.11	14.73 ± 1.60	0.75	0.32	0.58	0.4	0.6	0.7
IOPg (mmHg)	3 months	15.15 ± 2.00	15.10 ± 2.48	14.39 ± 1.03	14.73 ± 1.60	0.95	0.26	0.37	0.5	0.52	0.58

CH = corneal hysteresis, CRF = corneal resistance factor, CCT = central corneal thickness, IOPcc = cornea-compensated intraocular pressure, IOPg = Goldmann-correlated intraocular pressure, Non-aug. = non-augmented
*Level of statistical significance P < 0.05

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