ArticleFrontiers in medicine2025
Quantitative assessment of redness in Asian patients with recurrent blepharitis: the utility of cross-polarized light.
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Purpose: To establish an objective and quantitative method of evaluation redness in patients with blepharitis. Methods: 12 adult Asian patients with recurrent blepharitis were enrolled in the case group. 24 healthy controls, matched for age and gender in a 1:2 ratio, were recruited as the health group. Population characteristics, related medical histories and clinical indices of both groups were recorded. Redness area proportion of eyelid (RAE%) and eyelid margin (RAM%), were evaluated by cross-polarized light (Vplus Results: The population characteristics and clinical indices of two groups adhered to the study design. The score chart of principal component analysis shows significant differences in protein expression of eyelid secretions between two groups. The mean ± SD (standard deviation) values of RAE% and RAM% in the health group were 1.88 ± 2.53% and 1.63 ± 2.04%, respectively. The case group had the RAE% of 6.54 ± 7.20% (mean ± SD) and the RAM% of 17.14 ± 18.90% (mean ± SD), which were both significantly higher than those in the health group (all Conclusion: By using cross-polarized light, characteristic changes of redness can be observed in patients with recurrent blepharitis. RAM%, has a great potential value for standardizing and quantifying the inflammatory status of blepharitis.
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