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Wound Healing After ReLEx® Surgery

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Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE)

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Following refractive surgery, corneal wound-healing and inflammatory responses have important impact on the postoperative outcomes. It has been reported that SMILE induced less keratocyte apoptosis and inflammation compared with femtosecond-LASIK in a rabbit study. Similarly, we also found that the inflammatory and wound healing responses after SMILE was minimal and subsided after 1 week postoperatively. The postoperative complications resulting from impaired wound healing or inflammatory response, such as corneal haze or epithelial ingrowth, are reported to be low and were mainly associated with perioperative complications, such as difficult lenticule extraction.

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  1. Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

    Yu-Chi Liu, Donald T-H Tan & Jodhbir S. Mehta

  2. Corneal and External Eye Disease Service, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore

    Yu-Chi Liu, Donald T-H Tan & Jodhbir S. Mehta

  3. Department of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

    Donald T-H Tan & Jodhbir S. Mehta

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Liu, YC., Tan, D.TH., Mehta, J.S. (2015). Wound Healing After ReLEx® Surgery. In: Sekundo, W. (eds) Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18530-9_2

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