Title Lietuvos gyventojų akies ragenos centrinės dalies storio nustatymas bei jo priklausomybė nuo amžiaus, lyties ir kūno sudėjimo /
Translation of Title The determination of the central corneal thickness of the lithuanian population and its dependence on age, gender and body constitution.
Authors Galgauskas, Saulius
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Pages 101
Keywords [eng] central corneal thickness ; pachymetry ; cornea
Abstract [eng] Cornea is a part of the optical system of the eye, the condition of which is directly related with the eyesight and its quality. Due to the increasing popularity of the correction of refraction defects with the help of excimer laser, central cornea thickness acquires higher prognostic significance for the determination of the success of the operation and probable post-surgical complications. The objective of the survey is to measure the central corneal thickness of adult residents in Lithuania and the relevant factors having impact on it. In total 1650 residents of Lithuania in the age from 18 to 89 years of age were tested. The survey was carried out in the urban and regional primary health care institutions of the 10 counties of Lithuania and at the Centre of Eye Diseases of the Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių klinikos. The average central corneal thickness of men and women in Lithuania was defined in the survey. It was observed that central corneal thickness is neither conditioned by the gender, height or weight of an individual, nor by the eye refraction or the number and the size of corneal endothelia cells. The thickest cornea was observed in persons under 40 years of age, whereas it becomes thinner each decade from 2 to 8 µm after forty. It was identified in the survey that the thicker the cornea is - the smaller is its curvature. On the basis of the survey a table of central corneal thickness was developed for doctors ophthalmologists to be used in their everyday activities.
Type Doctoral thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2011