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Straylight As The Result Of Refractive Correction
Authors Gaurisankar ZS, van Rijn GA, Luyten GPM, van den Berg TJTP
Received 27 July 2019
Accepted for publication 16 September 2019
Published 12 November 2019 Volume 2019:13 Pages 2195—2201
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S224970
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Editor who approved publication: Dr Scott Fraser
Zoraida S Gaurisankar,1 Gwyneth A van Rijn,1 Gregorius PM Luyten,1 Thomas JTP van den Berg2
1Department of Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; 2Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Correspondence: Zoraida S Gaurisankar
Department of Ophthalmology, LUMC, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, the Netherlands
Tel +31 71 526 9111
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Email z.s.gaurisankar@lumc.nl
Purpose: To investigate the effect of refractive correction on straylight.
Patients and methods: Straylight values were measured with the C-Quant (Oculus Optikgeräte, GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany) in 1) near-emmetropic eyes (n=30) with various negative powered refractive lenses and in 2) myopic eyes (n=30) corrected with prescribed eyeglasses and contact lenses. The straylight measurements in each group were compared in the different conditions.
Results: In the near-emmetropic group, a significant effect (p<0.001) of each added negative diopter was found to increase straylight values with 0.006 log-units. In the second group, no significant correlation with type of correcting lens was found on straylight values.
Conclusion: Refractive correction with high minus power (contact) lenses result in subtle increase of straylight values. These changes are relatively small and do not lead to visual disability in a clinical setting.
Keywords: straylight, contact lenses, eyeglasses, glare, light scatter, refractive error
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