Comparison of Accelerated and Standard Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking Treatments in Experimental Fungal Keratitis for Aspergillus fumigatus

Table 1

Corneal and corneal epithelium thickness between groups.

		Base line mean ± SD; 95%CI	28 days after CXL mean ± SD; 95%CI	P
Corneal epithelium thickness (μm)	Accelerated CXL; (n/n’ = 12/12)	45.36 ± 2.24; 43.94 to 46.78	48.13 ± 3.55; 45.87 to 50.39	0.0323
	Standard CXL; (n/n’ = 12/11)	45.48 ± 2.17; 44.10 to 46.86	50.67 ± 4.02; 47.97 to 53.37	0.0008
	P	0.8952	0.1225
Corneal thickness (μm)	Accelerated CXL; (n/n’ = 12/12)	383.22 ± 27.35; 365.83 to 400.62	537.68 ± 39.32; 512.59 to 562.63	<0.0001
	Standard CXL; (n/n’ = 12/11)	381.80 ± 31.24; 362.04 to 401.64	568.24 ± 44.59; 538.23 to 598.18	<0.0001
	P	0.9068	0.0949

CXL, corneal collagen cross-linking. The test used for statistical analysis among groups was t-test and between groups was one-way ANOVA. n/n’, number of rabbits at base line/number of rabbits with non-healing excluded at 28 days after CXL.