Table 5.
Patient background of prospective randomized study
| Background factor | Randomized group
|
Comparison among groups | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DQS (%) | AT (%) | ||
| Number of patients analyzed | 75 (100.0) | 79 (100.0) | – |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 30 (40.0) | 23 (29.1) | Fisher’s exact test, P=0.177 |
| Female | 45 (60.0) | 56 (70.9) | |
| Age (years) | |||
| Mean ± SD | 71.7±7.4 | 70.3±7.1 | t-test, P=0.227 |
| Site of incision | |||
| Corneal incision | 25 (33.3) | 26 (32.9) | Fisher’s exact test, P=0.899 |
| Sclerocorneal incision | 23 (30.7) | 22 (27.8) | |
| Transconjunctival sclerocorneal incision | 27 (36.0) | 31 (39.2) | |
| Width of incision (mm) (phacoemulsification) | |||
| Mean ± SD | 2.31±0.14 | 2.30±0.16 | t-test, P=0.603 |
| Anesthetic procedure | |||
| With eye drops | 70 (93.3) | 72 (91.1) | Fisher’s exact test, P=1.000 |
| With retrobulbar injection | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.3) | |
| With tenon injection | 5 (6.7) | 6 (7.6) | |
| Surgical time (minutes) | |||
| Mean ± SD | 8.6±3.3 | 8.2±3.2 | t-test, P=0.495 |
| Schirmer I test (mm) (4 weeks after surgery) | |||
| Mean ± SD | 11.6±9.6 | 12.5±10.9 | t-test, P=0.592 |
Abbreviations: AT, artificial tears; DQS, diquafosol ophthalmic solution; SD, standard deviation.