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: Received: 24 January 2022 / Approved: 26 January 2022 / Online: 26 January 2022 (11:54:17 CET)
How to cite:
Palewski, M.; Budnik, A.; Lisowski, Ł.; Konopińska, J. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Different Pterygium Surgeries in Polish Caucasian Population. A Retrospective Case Series. Preprints2022, 2022010392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0392.v1.
Palewski, M.; Budnik, A.; Lisowski, Ł.; Konopińska, J. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Different Pterygium Surgeries in Polish Caucasian Population. A Retrospective Case Series. Preprints 2022, 2022010392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0392.v1.
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Palewski, M.; Budnik, A.; Lisowski, Ł.; Konopińska, J. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Different Pterygium Surgeries in Polish Caucasian Population. A Retrospective Case Series. Preprints2022, 2022010392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0392.v1.
Palewski, M.; Budnik, A.; Lisowski, Ł.; Konopińska, J. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Different Pterygium Surgeries in Polish Caucasian Population. A Retrospective Case Series. Preprints 2022, 2022010392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0392.v1.
Abstract
This study compares the efficacy of the two most commonly used surgical methods for pterygium in the Polish population, conjunctival autograft versus amniotic membrane transplantation, and to evaluate the postopera-tive recurrence rate. We retrospectively analysed the medical records of 65 patients who underwent surgery for primary or recurrent pterygium at an ophthalmology clinic in Bialystok, Poland between 2016 and 2020. Surgical success (no regrowth) occurred in almost half of the amniotic membrane patients (44%) and in most of the conjunctival autograft patients (79%); this was a significant relationship. The odds of successful surgery were 79% lower for subjects with amniotic membranes than for those with conjunc-tival autografts (OR with 95% CI = 0.21 (0.05; 0.94]; p = 0.045). Our study confirms that in Polish Caucasian population the success rate of the pro-cedure using conjunctival autograft versus the use of amniotic membrane, is in favoured for the procedure with conjunctival graft.
Keywords
Pterygium; Pterygium surgery; Amniotic membrane; Conjunctival auto-graft; Polish Caucasian population
Subject
MEDICINE & PHARMACOLOGY, Ophthalmology
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