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ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2019

Incidence and management of symptomatic dry eye related to LASIK for myopia, with topical cyclosporine A.

Anastasios John Kanellopoulos

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Article in Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anastasios John KanellopoulosLaservision.gr Clinical and Research Eye Institute, Athens, Greece, ajkmd@mac.com.
LaserVision · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo evaluate the incidence of transient dry eye associated with LASIK for myopia and the efficacy of topical cyclosporine A administration.

methodsGroup A was formed from 145 (82 female, 63 male) eyes that developed clinically significant dry eye within 1 month post-LASIK and were subjected to cyclosporine A treatment. A "non-symptomatic for dry eye" and age- and gender-matched group (group B) was formed from the same pool of patients to serve as control. Schirmer's, tear film break-up time (TBUT) and Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire were evaluated. Central corneal epithelial thickness (CET) and topographic epithelial thickness variability (TVT) were evaluated as quantitative dry eye objective markers. Subjective patient survey was also assessed.

resultsMean age was 39.7±6.2 years for the female and 47.67±9.5 years for the male patients, in group A. Schirmer's test mean preoperative value was 8.4±3.1 mm; and 4.5±3.6 mm at 1 month post-LASIK. Statistically significant decrease from 1 month post-LASIK baseline was found at 12 months (8.2±2.1 mm;

conclusionTopical cyclosporine A treatment is an effective alternative in the management of LASIK for myopia-related transient dry eye. Optical coherence tomography epithelial mapping may provide an objective benchmark in diagnosing and monitoring this significant disorder and its correlation with visual symptoms.

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anterior segment OCTAS-OCTcyclosporine Aepithelial thickness mappingepithelial thickness variabilityLASIK-related dry eyeRestasis

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PMID30988596
PMCPMC6438263
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