Dry Eye Diseases and Ocular Surgery: Practical Guidelines for Canadian Eye Care Practitioners

Obesity and Eye Diseases

Background: Obesity is a chronic metabolic disease that has become an epidemic today.  Objective: Although the effects of obesity on the body have been well studied, less is known about obesity and eye health. Methods The present article is a review study. The search was performed using keywords of obesity and eye diseases in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science databases from 2000 to 2021.  Resul...

Postrefractive surgery dry eye.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To report the recently published literature on ocular surface changes after refractive surgery, as well as the outcomes of treatment modalities on postrefractive surgery dry eye. RECENT FINDINGS Cyclosporine, the first US Food and Drug Administration approved agent to treat the underlying pathological mechanism of chronic dry eye, has demonstrated promising results in dry ey...

Cataract Surgery and Dry Eye

Lacrimal Gland, Ocular Surface, and Dry Eye

1Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Ophthalmology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary 3Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing, China 4Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore 5Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Me...

dry eye following keratorefractive surgery

purpose: to compare tear secretion values following lasik (laser in situ keratomileusis) and photorefractive keratectomy (prk). methods: patients referred to aban eye clinic (isfahan, iran) for refractive surgery were randomly assigned to lasik or prk. exclusion criteria were contraindications for refractive surgery, usage of topical ocular drugs, dry eye and reoperation. schirmer test was perf...