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Corneal ablation was done using the NIDEK EC-5000 excimer laser. Patients were seen at days 1, 3, and 6 to rate their pain via three measuring tools: 1) a global subjective rating, 2) a 10-cm visual analog scale, and 3) an 11-point numeric scale of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-results\">RESULTS:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On postoperative day 1, 19 of 20 patients reported pain in both eyes. Using the global subjective rating scale, patients reported more pain for those eyes treated by PRK. Although clinically relevant, this difference was not statistically significant (P = .56). Based on the 11-point numeric scale of pain and visual analog scale, mean pain scores were similar for both groups. On day 3, using the global subjective rating scale, 11 of 12 patients who had pain reported more in the epi-LASIK treated eye (P = .0005). In addition, epi-LASIK eyes demonstrated higher mean pain scores based on the other two scales (visual analog scale, P = .045 and 11-point numeric scale of pain, P = .023). Only 6 patients reported minimal pain on day 6. It was more frequently reported and slightly more marked in epi-LASIK eyes, but did not reach statistical significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-conclusions\">CONCLUSIONS:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Epi-LASIK and PRK have similar pain on postoperative day 1, but epi-LASIK demonstrated statistically more pain than PRK on days 3 and 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div  class=\" b-buttons\" >\n\t\t\t<a  class=\"b-buttons__button a-btn a-btn--has-icon-after icon-arrow-right\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17326351\/\">\n\tLeer art\u00edculo<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis F Torres, Cristhian Sancho, Bryan Tan, Karina Padilla, David J Schanzlin, Arturo S Chayet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lasik-sin-cuchilla-o-prk","category-publicaciones-cientificas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - 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