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Table 2 Acute surgical and non-surgical management for ocular and peri-ocular burns study outcomes

From: Acute surgical vs non-surgical management for ocular and peri-ocular burns: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author

Group

Sample size (n)

Surgery

Time to management (days)

Visual acuity

Pain (0–10)

Corneal haze

Epithelial defect diameter (mm)

Epithelial defect area (mm2)

Time to epithelialization (days)

Healed epithelial defect

Schirmer

TBUT (s)

Limbal ischemia (hours)

I

F

I

F

I

F

I

F

I

F

I

F

Frank et al. [15]

Surgery

22

FTG

Surgery

10

FTG, T

No surgery

60

Tamhane et al. [16]

Surgery

20

AMT

2.5 ± 1

0.02 ± 0

0.3 ± 4

8.8 ± 2

2.5 ± 0.3

97 ± 39

7 ± 4

4 ± 4

No surgery

24

0.1 ± 0.2

0.6 ± 0.4

8.6 ± 2

5.5 ± 1

61 ± 47

8 ± 4

5 ± 4

Lopez-Garcia et al. [17]

Surgery

12

AMT

0.2 ± 0.2

0.63 ± 0.2

No surgery

12

0.2 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.2

Singh et al. [18]

Surgery

50

DALK

0.3 ± 0.6

0.4 ± 0.2

3.7 ± 0.2

0.2 ± 0.5

No surgery

50

0.3 ± 0

0.03 ± 0.5

3.7 ± 0.5

3.6 ± 0.5

Tandon et al. [19]

Surgery

38

AMT

5 ± 12

0.1 ± 0.3

0.3 ± 1

3 ± 2

1.3 ± 3

47 ± 80

27 ± 52

4.5 ± 3

No surgery

36

7 ± 17

0.04 ± 1

0.2 ± 0.5

2.5 ± 3

0.5 ± 2

48 ± 116

35 ± 69

3 ± 4

Surgery

38

AMT

7.5 ± 12

0.005 ± 0

0.014 ± 0

1.5 ± 3

2 ± 3

114 ± 99

41 ± 65

9 ± 4

No surgery

41

7.5 ± 12

0.01 ± 0

0.01 ± 0

1.3 ± 3

2.5 ± 3

112 ± 106

56 ± 63

4.8 ± 4

Sharma et al. [20]

Surgery

18

AMT

7 ± 3

0.03 ± 0

0.5 ± 0.4

2.3 ± 1

0.4 ± 1

7.7 ± 1

1.7 ± 1

76 ± 27

1 ± 2

41 ± 29

18

13.3 ± 2

9.4 ± 1

No surgery

20

6.6 ± 2

0.03 ± 0

0.3 ± 0.3

2.4 ± 1

1 ± 1

7.2 ± 2

3.2 ± 2

54 ± 22

6 ± 5

57.8 ± 29

17

13.7 ± 1

8.6 ± 1

Sharma et al. [21]

Surgery

15

AMT

4 ± 2

6.4 ± 1

2.4 ± 1

1.8 ± 1

1 ± 1

6 ± 2

0.2 ± 1

38 ± 22

0.4 ± 1

22 ± 10

14

21.2 ± 2

10.7 ± 2

7 ± 3

1.5 ± 2

No surgery

15

4.2 ± 1

 

5.8 ± 1

2.2 ± 2

1.7 ± 1

1.1 ± 1

5.6 ± 2

2.6 ± 1

33 ± 20

6.8 ± 8

567 ± 15

10

18 ± 4

10.3 ± 4

6 ± 3

3.7 ± 3

Cabalag et al. [2]

Surgery

49

STG, FTG, T

1 ± 2

No surgery

277

0.6 ± 1

  1. AMT amniotic membrane transplantation, DALK deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, STG split-thickness graft, FTG full-thickness graft, T tarsorrhaphy, I Initial evaluation, F follow-up
  2. Data presented as mean ± standard deviation