Short-term variation of central corneal thickness measurements in keratoconus using the Tono- Pachymeter NT530P (Tonopachy™) | Zendy

Khathutshelo Percy Mashige | Zendy; Olalekan A. Oduntan | Zendy; kululeko Gcabashe | Zendy

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Short-term variation of central corneal thickness measurements in keratoconus using the Tono- Pachymeter NT530P (Tonopachy™)

Author(s) -

Khathutshelo Percy Mashige,

Olalekan A. Oduntan,

kululeko Gcabashe

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

african vision and eye health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2413-3183

pISSN - 2410-1516

DOI - 10.4102/aveh.v71i3.77

Subject(s) - repeatability , keratoconus , ophthalmology , medicine , standard deviation , coefficient of variation , optometry , corneal topography , limits of agreement , absolute deviation , mathematics , cornea , nuclear medicine , statistics

Repeatability of values is a crucial reliability index in any instrument used to measure ocular parameters. The purpose of this study was to investigate short-term variability of central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements in keratoconic eyes. The Tono-Pachymeter NT530P (Tonopachy™) was used to take fifty successive automatic measurements of CCT of the right eyes of ten keratoconic subjects(six females and four males), aged 19 to 41 years (mean = 30.4 ± 6.8 years). The means, standard deviations and variances of the measurements showed little variation with good repeatability. Theinter-subject or overall mean values and standard deviations of the measurements were 452.1 ± 30.3 μm. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S), Lilliefors and Shapiro-Wilks (S-W) tests showed that gener- ally the data was normally distributed, with a few exceptions. The results of this study suggest that over short periods of time, the Tonopachy™ provides repeatable measures of CCT in keratoconic corneas. (S Afr Optom 2012 71(3) 102-108)

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