Table 4.

Demography, clinical characteristics, and interim report of patients who underwent indirect surgical corneal neurotization

Patient number	Age at surgery/Sex	Laterality	Etiology	Mackie stage	BCVA Pre operative	Corneal findings	Facial Palsy (Y/N)	Pre operative Corneal sensation (cotton wisp)	Surgery	Last follow-up (months)	Post-operative BCVA at last follow-up	Corneal Sensations at last follow-up	Regrowth Of nerve fibers IVCM at last follow-up (Y/N)
1	5y/M	RE	NK	2	20/400	Corneal scar	N	Absent	Indirect SCN	18 months	20/320	Improved, Lesser than normal eye	Y
2	7y/F	LE	NK post neurological illness	2	20/125	Corneal scar	N	Absent	Indirect SCN	18 months	20/50	Improved	NA
3	1.5y/M	RE	NK Post traumatic	2	20/320	Exposure keratopathy	Y	Absent	Indirect SCN	3 months	20/250	Improved	NA
4	9m/F	LE	NK post herpetic	2	CFCF	Neurotrophic keratopathy	N	Absent	Indirect SCN	18 months	CF 1m	Improved	NA
5	28y/F	RE	NK post herpetic	2	20/50	Neurotrophic keratopathy	N	Absent	Indirect SCN	18 months	20/80	Improved	Y
6	20y/F	RE	NK post herpetic	2	20/50	Neurotrophic keratopathy	N	Absent	Indirect SCN	18 months	20/25	Improved	Y
7	38y/F	RE	NK post herpetic	2	CFCF	Punched out corneal ulcer with TA BCL	N	Absent	Indirect SCN	13 months	CF 1 m	Improved	NA

RE Right eye, LE Left eye, BCVA Best corrected visual acuity, NK Neurotrophic keratopathy, SCN Surgical corneal neurotization, CFCF Counting fingers close to face, CF 1 m Counting fingers at 1 m, IVCM In vivo confocal microscopy, TA BCL Tissue adhesive bandage contact lens