Reproducibility and validity of laser flare/cell meter measurements as an objective method of assessing intraocular inflammation
A. el-Maghraby, A. Marzouki, T. M. Matheen, J. Souchek and M. Van der Karr
El-Maghraby Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Preoperative and postoperative anterior chamber reactions in a series of
patients who had undergone cataract surgery were measured with a laser
flare/cell meter (Kowa FC-1000, Kowa Instrument Corp, Japan) by two
different technicians (A.M. and T.M.M.), and clinical assessments of
inflammation were recorded. The average cell and flare readings of the two
technicians were nearly identical at every time point, showing the laser
flare/cell measurements to be highly reproducible. The correlations between
laser flare/cell measurements and clinical assessments at postoperative
time points were all highly positive (P less than .01), demonstrating the
validity of the laser flare/cell measurements.
