Table 3.

Mean pachymetry measurements by SD-OCT of corneas with herpetic stromal keratitis according to inflammatory status and type of keratitis.

	Disease Activity			Type of Keratitis
Measurement Parameter (µm)	Eyes with active keratitis ( n = 24)	Eyes with Inactive keratitis ( n = 29)	P- value	Non- necrotizing keratitis ( n = 44)	Necrotizing keratitis ( n = 9)	P- value
CCT	561.7	482.3	$<$ 0.001*	519.7	492.8	O.405
MCT	483.5	436.4	0.007*	468.9	396.3	0.002*
CTL	644.7	439.9	$<$ 0.001*	528.2	473.5	0.711
CETL	68.7	78.4	0.048*	72.2	47.1	0.043*
Stromal thinning (irregular astigmastism ${}^{†}$ ) No eyes (%)	5 (20.8%)	11 (37.9%)${}^{†}$	0.181	6 (13.6%)	5 (62.5%)${}^{†}$	0.001*
SD-OCT, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography; CCT, central corneal thickness; MCT, minimum corneal thickness; CTL, corneal thickness at lesion site; CETL, corneal epithelium thickness at lesion site; ${}^{†}$confirmed by topography ${}^{*}$ P-value $<$ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant (Mann–Whitney U test for two independent samples).