Tear break up time
Short Tear Break-Up Time and Seasonal Variation in Intra-Ocular Pressure
... ophthalmic practice. In addition, glaucoma and DED frequently co-exist in a single patient, and some of the glaucoma medications can affect the ocular surface as a side effect [5]. For this reason, glaucoma medication ...
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Assessing the relationship between non-invasive tear break-up time and maximum blink interval values among young adults at Mzuzu University
... The clinical diagnosis of dry eye is achieved by a battery of tests, which may include tear osmolality, Schimmer test, phenol red thread test, TBUT (tear break-up time), as well as the ...
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Agreement of non-invasive tear break up time measurement between Tomey RT-7000 Auto Refractor-Keratometer and Oculus Keratograph 5M
... “ring break unit” is calculated as the reflection bright- ness decreases, and when the threshold of 20 is reached, the break-up time is ...of tear break-ups. The K5M tracks ...
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Severe symptoms of short tear break-up time dry eye are associated with accommodative microfluctuations
... Notes: (A) Tear film on the ocular surface before additional treatments. (B) Functional Va before the additional treatments. (C) Fk-map before the additional treatments. (D) Tear film on the ocular surface ...
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Clinical evaluation of the therapeutic effects of atelocollagen absorbable punctal plugs
... The subjects were 74 eyes of 37 patients (34 women, 3 men; mean age ± standard deviation (SD), 60.5 ± 13.8 years) diagnosed with dry eye disease (DED) at the Yokohama City University Medical Center from April 2009 to ...
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Effects of prostaglandin analog therapy on the ocular surface of glaucoma patients
... This study focuses on the effects of topical antiglaucoma medications in patients with pre-existing ocular surface disease. We aim to quantify changes in tear break-up time (TBUT), corneal ...
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Original Article Study on factors contributing to xerophthalmia among type-2 diabetes patients
... addition, tear break up time (TBUT), Schirmer’s I test (SIt), and fluorescein vital staining (FL) in the two groups were also ...a tear film with a TBUT value of <10 s was considered ...
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<p>Keratograph 5M As A Useful And Objective Tool For Evaluating The Ocular Surface In Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency</p>
... the tear break-up time (BUT) is one of the most widely used tests, and it is useful for diagnosis and for managing the treatment of dry ...measure tear stability objectively, ...
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Efficiency and safety of subconjunctival injection of anti-VEGF agent – bevacizumab – in treating dry eye
... Subjects were evaluated at five visits: 3 days before the injection and 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months after the injection. The clinical assessments of the subject and both eyes were carried out in the following ...
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Comparison of 0.05% cyclosporine and 3% diquafosol solution for dry eye patients: a randomized, blinded, multicenter clinical trial
... Adult patients (age: ≥19 years) were eligible for partici- pation if they had been diagnosed with moderate DED according to the following criteria: (1) symptomatic dry eye with complaint of ocular dryness, (2) cornea ...
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<p>Effects of short-term oral vitamin A supplementation on the ocular tear film in patients with dry eye</p>
... of tear ferning (TF), tear osmolarity, and the tear break-up time (TBUT) before and 24 hours after the third dose of the vitamin A ...
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A prospective, multicenter, noninterventional study of Optive Plus<sup>®</sup> in the treatment of patients with dry eye: the prolipid study
... residence time in the tear film, reduce the tear evaporation rate, improve the signs and symptoms of dry eye, improve the structure of the lipid layer, and to improve diagnostic test results, ...
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Therapeutic effects of 3% diquafosol ophthalmic solution in patients with short tear film break-up time-type dry eye disease
... as tear film instability and hyperosmolarity, ocular surface inflammation and damage, or neurosen- sory abnormalities ...lacrimal tear production, and evaporative dry eye (EDE) is associated with increased ...
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Evaluation of carboxymethylcellulose 0.5%/glycerin 0.9% and sodium hyaluronate 0.18% artificial tears in patients with mild to moderate dry eye
... (OSDI), tear break-up time (TBUT), corneal staining, conjunctival staining, conjunctival hyperemia, Dry Eye Symptom and Bothersomeness Survey, Patient Acceptability Questionnaire, and Patient ...
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Intra-observer and inter-observer repeatability of ocular surface interferometer in measuring lipid layer thickness
... the tear break up time (TBUT) and Schirmer’s test, these tests are highly variable in their measurements ...7], tear osmolarity measurement [8] and interferometry [9, ...
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<p>Assessment of tear film in subjects with a high body mass index</p>
... either tear production or tear evaporation, or ...the tear fi lm in terms of the volume and quality of ...8 Tear volume can be assessed by the use of phenol red thread (PRT), 9 tear ...
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<p>A new approach of ocular nebulization with vitamin B12 versus oxytocin for the treatment of dry eye disease: an in vivo confocal microscopy study</p>
... including tear meniscus height (TMH), 21 tear break-up time (BUT), 1 and corneal fl uorescein staining (CFS) evaluated using the Van Bijsterveld scale, 22 and IVCM analysis of the ...
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Original Article Intervention of electro-acupuncture and acupuncture on expression of related genes on lacrimal gland cholinergic signaling pathway in treating dry eye rabbits
... of tear flows, tear break-up time and corneal staining scores in 3 ...in tear flows and tear film break-time; and were significantly higher on Day ...and ...
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TABLET COMBINING GRANULES WITH DUTCH TEAK EXTRACT (GUAZUMA ULMIFOLIA (L).) AND GREEN TEA EXTRACT (CAMELIA SINENSIS (L.) O.K) WITH AVOCADO STARCH (PERSEA AMERICANA MILL.) AS BINDING AGENT
... tablet break-apart ...and break-apart ...goes up, the flow time also runs up, as well as the humidity level, hardness and break-apart time on granule, Dutch teak extract, ...
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Eurofocus: a newssheet for journalists. Weekly No. 42/93, 20-27 December 1993.
... True, a good deal has happened in that time: economic crisis, rising unemployment, break-up of the Soviet Union, a political shake-up without precedent in the countries of central and ea[r] ...
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