Medicina, 2021 Background and Objectives: Evaporative dry eye disease is frequently associated with meibomian gland dysfunction. Patients are often unhappy because of daily drops, care burden, and suboptimal conventional treatments.
Leonidas Solomos +4 more
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Intense Pulsed Plus Low-Level Light Therapy in Meibomian Gland Dysfunction [PDF]
, 2021 Purpose: To analyse the clinical outcome in patients with meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) who underwent intense pulsed light (IPL) plus low-level light therapy (LLL).
José, Diana +6 more
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Meibomian Gland Morphology Is a Sensitive Early Indicator of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction [PDF]
American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019 To investigate the relationship between meibomian gland (MG) morphology and clinical dry eye tests in patients with meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD).Cross-sectional study.Total 538 MGD patients and 21 healthy controls.MG loss on meibography images of upper (UL) and lower lids (LL) was graded on a scale of 0 (lowest degree of MG loss) to 3.
Muhammed Yasin Adil +8 more
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Efficacy of isolated treatment with Intense Pulsed Light applied directly to the eyelids of patients with Meibomian gland dysfunction: a retrospective cohort [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de OftalmologiaObjective: To describe the clinical benefits of intense pulsed light applied directly to the eyelids of patients with Meibomian gland dysfunction and without glandular expression.
George Luiz Soares de Oliveira +8 more
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Hyperglycemia Induces Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, 2022 Patients diagnosed with diabetes are inclined to have abnormalities on stability of tear film and disorder of meibomian gland (MG). This study aims to explore the pathological change of MG induced by diabetes in a rat model.Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were intraperitoneally injected with streptozotocin (STZ) to establish a diabetic animal model.
Guo, Yuli +13 more
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Comparison of the meibomian gland dysfunction in patients with chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease and Sjögren’s syndrome [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019 AIM: To investigate the abnormalities in the meibomian gland in patients with dry eye disease (DED) associated with chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease (coGVHD) in comparison with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), a major form of aqueous deficient DED and ...
Won Choi +5 more
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A Novel Quantitative Index of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, the Meibomian Gland Tortuosity
Translational Vision Science & Technology, 2020 To quantitatively measure meibomian gland (MG) tortuosity in meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) patients and normal controls and to observe the efficacy of evaluating MG tortuosity for the diagnosis of MGD.This cross-sectional study enrolled 32 obstructive MGD patients and 28 normal volunteers.
Lin, Xiaolei +8 more
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Meibomian gland dysfunction: hyperkeratinization or atrophy? [PDF]
, 2015 Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the major cause of evaporative dry eye disease (EDED) and dysfunction is widely thought to mechanistically involve ductal hyperkeratinization, plugging and obstruction.
Parfitt, Geraint J +4 more
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Role of instrumental factors in Meibomian gland contrast assessment
, 2023 Purpose: Meibomian gland contrast has been suggested as a potential biomarker in Meibomian gland dysfunction. This study analysed the instrumental factors related to contrast.
Gómez Pedrero, José Antonio +3 more
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Dry eye and Meibomian gland dysfunction evaluation in sarcoidosis patients
, 2021 Purpose: To analyze the relation between Meibomian gland dysfunction, dry eye, and sarcoidosis. Materials and Methods: Twenty eyes of 10 sarcoidosis patients (Group 1) and 20 left eyes of 20 age-sex matched healthy volunteers (Group 2) were included ...
Gerceker Turk B., Palamar M., Kiyat P.
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