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Table 1 Patient demographics

From: Differences in corneal clinical findings after standard and accelerated cross-linking in patients with progressive keratoconus

Items:

Accelerated:

Dresden protocol:

Number of patients (male)

131 (98)

110 (86)

Eyes (male)

148 (110)

138 (109)

Average age (male/female)

28.7+/−11.6 (27.6/31.9)

27.0+/−9.4 (25.7/ 31.9)

Right eyes (m/f)

68 (45/23)

76 (56/20)

Kmax pre-OP (mean, sd, median)

54.3, 5.6, 53.8

55.5, 5.6, 55.4

Pachmetry pre-OP (mean, sd, median)

467.6, 37.0, 466.5

457.6, 31.6, 460.9

KMF pre-OP (mean, sd, median)

46.3, 3.5, 45.9

47.8, 3.4, 47.1

Visual acuity pre-OP (logmar)

(mean, sd, median)

cc: 0.34, 0.24, 0.3

sc: 0.47, 0.33, 0.4

cc: 0.37, 0.28, 0.35

sc: 0.55, 0.37, 0.49

  1. Patient demographics and characteristics. Kmax Maximal K value as measured in keratometry, Kmf average keratometry reading of front cornea, cc cum correctione (with best correction), sc sine correctione (without any correction)