Surfactant protein D contributes to ocular defense against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a murine model of dry eye disease. [PDF]
, 2013 Dry eye disease can cause ocular surface inflammation that disrupts the corneal epithelial barrier. While dry eye patients are known to have an increased risk of corneal infection, it is not known whether there is a direct causal relationship between ...
Evans, David +4 more
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Impacto da poluição ambiental na superfície ocular de pacientes com síndrome de Sjögren [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: To evaluate the effect of air pollution on the ocular surface of patients with Sjögren's syndrome. Methods: We investigated the ocular surfaces of thirty patients with Sjögren's syndrome and thirty healthy volunteers (control group) living in ...
Berra, Alejandro +5 more
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Ocular manifestations in Kindler syndrome
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 We aimed describe the chronic ocular sequelae of Kindler syndrome. All cases of Kindler syndrome with ocular involvement that presented to a tertiary eye care center were included. Three cases of Kindler syndrome with ocular changes were reviewed. Case 1
Prafulla K Maharana +4 more
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Tear fluid biomarkers in ocular and systemic disease: potential use for predictive, preventive and personalised medicine [PDF]
, 2016 In the field of predictive, preventive and personalised medicine, researchers are keen to identify novel and reliable ways to predict and diagnose disease, as well as to monitor patient response to therapeutic agents.
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A systematic review of non-pharmacological interventions for primary Sjögren’s syndrome [PDF]
, 2015 The objective of this systematic review was to assess the efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for the management of primary Sjögren’s syndrome.
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, 2018 A 79-year-old female with a history of keratoconjunctivitis sicca presented with several years of epiphora of both eyes. Thirteen years earlier, intracanalicular Herrick lacrimal plugs (Lacrimedics, Eastsound, WA, USA) had been placed in both eyes to ...
Hellman, Justin B +2 more
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Assessing the painful, uninflamed eye in primary care [PDF]
, 2015 We acknowledge the important contributions of Professor Amada J Lee, University of Aberdeen, Division of Statistics, for assistance with analysing the data from the patient survey.
Dick, Andrew +2 more
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Image-based quantitative analysis of tear film lipid layer thickness for meibomian gland evaluation
BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2017 Background Dry eye syndrome is one of the most common ocular diseases, and meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the leading cause of evaporative dry eye syndrome.
Hyeonha Hwang +4 more
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Folia Medica Indonesiana, 2022 Highlights: 1. Females were the most gender who suffer from dry eye syndrome than males. 2. Undergone phacoemulsification patients had frequent dry eye syndrome. 3.
Tengku Siti Harilza Zubaidah +2 more
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Microvascular autologous submandibular gland transplantation in severe cases of keratoconjunctivitis sicca [PDF]
, 2015 Dry eye syndrome is a relatively common disease of the tears and ocular surfaces that results in discomfort, visual disturbance, and tear film instability with possible damage to the ocular surfaces.
Jia-Zeng Su, Zhi-Gang Cai, Guang-Yan Yu
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