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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Novel Approaches for Imaging-Based Diagnosis of Ocular Surface Disease.

Doreen Schmidl, Andreas Schlatter, Jacqueline Chua, Bingyao Tan, Gerhard Garhöfer, Leopold Schmetterer

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Commentary: Evaluating ocular surface disease in glaucoma.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Doreen SchmidlDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-7768
Andreas SchlatterDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Jacqueline ChuaSingapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore 169856, Singapore.
Bingyao TanSingapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore 169856, Singapore.
Gerhard GarhöferDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Leopold SchmettererDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging has become indispensable in the diagnosis and management of diseases in the posterior part of the eye. In recent years, imaging techniques for the anterior segment are also gaining importance and are nowadays routinely used in clinical practice. Ocular surface disease is often synonymous with dry eye disease, but also refers to other conditions of the ocular surface, such as Meibomian gland dysfunction or keratitis and conjunctivitis with different underlying causes, i.e., allergies or infections. Therefore, correct differential diagnosis and treatment of ocular surface diseases is crucial, for which imaging can be a helpful tool. A variety of imaging techniques have been introduced to study the ocular surface, such as anterior segment optical coherence tomography, in vivo confocal microscopy, or non-contact meibography. The present review provides an overview on how these techniques can be used in the diagnosis and management of ocular surface disease and compares them to clinical standard methods such as slit lamp examination or staining of the cornea or conjunctiva. Although being more cost-intensive in the short term, in the long term, the use of ocular imaging can lead to more individualized diagnoses and treatment decisions, which in turn are beneficial for affected patients as well as for the healthcare system. In addition, imaging is more objective and provides good documentation, leading to an improvement in patient follow-up and education.

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dry eyeinterferometryin vivo confocal microscopymeibographymeibomian gland dysfunctionocular surface diseaseocular thermographyoptical coherence tomographytear break-up timewavefront aberrometry

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PMID32823769
PMCPMC7460546

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