ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2015
Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography for monitoring the lower tear meniscus in dry eye after acupuncture treatment.
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- Acupuncture in the treatment of inflammation-related ocular degenerations: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Acupuncture on Tear Proteomics in Patients with Video Display Terminal-Related Dry Eye.Journal of proteome research · 2024Article
- Treatment of Dry Eye With Intracanalicular Injection of Hydroxybutyl Chitosan: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Acupuncture for the treatment of dry eye: Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- Effect of acupuncture versus artificial tears for dry eye disease: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- Acupoint selection for the treatment of dry eye: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2020Article
- Acupuncture and dry eye: current perspectives. A double-blinded randomized controlled trial and review of the literature.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2019Article
- Social-economic analysis of patients with Sjogren's syndrome dry eye in East China: a cross-sectional study.BMC ophthalmology · 2018Article
- Acupuncture and herbal formulation compared with artificial tears alone: evaluation of dry eye symptoms and associated tests in randomised clinical trial.BMJ open ophthalmology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Dry eye is highly prevalent and has a significant impact on quality of life. Acupuncture was found to be effective to treat dry eye. However, little was known about the effect of acupuncture on different subtypes of dry eye. The objective of this study was to investigate the applicability of tear meniscus assessment by Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography in the evaluation of acupuncture treatment response in dry eye patients and to explore the effect of acupuncture on different subtypes of dry eye compared with artificial tear treatment. A total of 108 dry eye patients were randomized into acupuncture or artificial tear group. Each group was divided into three subgroups including lipid tear deficiency (LTD), Sjögren syndrome dry eye (SSDE), and non-Sjögren syndrome dry eye (Non-SSDE) for data analysis. After 4-week treatment, the low tear meniscus parameters including tear meniscus height (TMH), tear meniscus depth (TMD), and tear meniscus area (TMA) in the acupuncture group increased significantly for the LTD and Non-SSDE subgroups compared with both the baseline and the control groups (all P values < 0.05), but not for the SSDE. Acupuncture provided a measurable improvement of the tear meniscus dimensions for the Non-SSDE and LTD patients, but not for the SSDE patients.
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