More and more patients are being treated for obstructive sleep apnea as evidence builds showing the harmful effects of this condition involving Glaucoma and Dry Eye Disease. Cornea 2012 Mar. 9 (Epub head of print) article by Hayirici, et al discusses its potential effect of CPAP on the ocular surface. Patients may benefit from … [Read more...]
Dry Eye Disease & Depression. Is it the Chicken or the Egg?
March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We see patients every day that are being treated with antidepressants, suffering from depression to OCD to anxiety. Clinicians should be aware Dry Eye Disease has significant impact on these patients' quality of life. Published in Cornea Feb 2012(Epub ahead of print) at this … [Read more...]
A Single LipiFlow® Thermal Pulsation System Treatment Improves Meibomian Gland Function and Reduces Dry Eye Symptoms for 9 Months
March 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Promising results regarding treatment for MGD patients using LipiFlow device reduced DED symptoms. To view the article, click here: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/02713683.2011.631721 … [Read more...]
Using TearLab for Dry Eye Detection in Refractive Surgery Patients
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a poster presented at the winter ESCRS, the TearLab Osmolarity Test and Schirmer's test were compared to see which is a more accurate predictor of post-refractive surgery dry eye disease when performed in pre-operative refractive surgery patients. Results showed that by the end of postoperative month 1, pre-LASIK … [Read more...]
Dry eye prevention and management crucial to refractive surgery success
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pre-op TearLab testing proves effective in selecting patients at risk for Dry Eye complications post-op according to Dr. Beatrice Cochener's presentation at the winter ESCRS recently, She discusses opportunities of pre-treating with Restasis, omega 3's. To see the full article published in OCULAR SURGERY NEWS EUROPE … [Read more...]
Insights Into The Role of Osmolarity
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Stephen Pflugfelder, MD provided a number of dry eye pearls in his article, “Tear Dysfunction and the Cornea: LXVIII Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture” published inthe December 2011 issue of American Journal of Ophthalmology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22019306 Regarding osmolarity and its role in dry eye, Dr. … [Read more...]
Unmet Need in Dry Eye
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dry Eye Disease is the most common pathology you will see in your clinic each day. Dr. Kelly Nichols addressed the need for clinicians to answer the call. From Contact Lenses Today: http://www.cltoday.com/new/issue_012212.asp Unmet Need in Dry Eye A recent "Industry News" article in the AOA News caught my … [Read more...]
Its just Dry Eye Disease, or is it?
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How many times have we as clinicians initially presumed "a default diagnosis" of Dry Eye Disease just based on symptoms? Dr. Bill Townsend discusses Conjunctivochalasis which is an example of "other causes" we must remember when patients are having symptoms of Dry Eye Disease. Conjunctivochalasis By William Townsend, OD, … [Read more...]
Breakthrough in Diagnosing Dry Eye and Staging Disease Severity
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In January's edition of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, Jay Pepose, MD, PhD says.... A lot depends on treating patients with dry eye disease. Nearly one in five individuals in North America has dry eye disease (DED); it may be one of the most common yet frequently undiagnosed and untreated problems seen every day by … [Read more...]
Diurnal variation of tear osmolarity in normal subjects measured by a new microchip system
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Normal subjects showed no variation over a day, confirming that a properly functioning tear film is characterized by its low and stable concentration. This study provides further evidence that eye-to-eye variability is the hallmark of Dry Eye Disease. As shown in Lemp et al. [AJO 2011], dry eye disease subjects showed … [Read more...]
