Tear film abnormalities in pseudoexfoliation syndrome and normal healthy participants: A comparative analysis
| Autor: | Shukrullah Noori, Jaya Kaushik, Sandeep Shankar, P.S. Moulick, Rupali Bose, Alok Sati |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry 030106 microbiology Significant difference Prove it Pseudoexfoliation syndrome General Medicine Tear film break-up time medicine.disease eye diseases Tear production stomatognathic diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine stomatognathic system Ophthalmology Tear meniscus height Medicine Original Article Schirmer test 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Med J Armed Forces India |
| ISSN: | 0377-1237 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.mjafi.2019.01.003 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Pseudoexfoliative material is being implicated in causing tear film abnormalities, and the aim of the present study was to prove it and to compare with the normal healthy participants. METHODS: A total of 398 eyes of 200 participants were studied, and two groups were formed. The first, pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEXS) group, included 198 eyes of 100 patients, and the second, age-matched control group, included 200 eyes of 100 participants. Tear film abnormalities were compared in the two groups by tear meniscus height (TMH), Schirmer test I, Schirmer test II and tear film break-up time (TBUT). RESULTS: On comparing the two groups using independent t-test, a significant difference was found in Schirmer test I, Schirmer test II, and TBUT between the PEXS group (Schirmer test I: 23.98 ± 10.68 mm, Schirmer test II: 17.11 ± 8.78 mm, and TBUT: 9.778 ± 5.54 s) and the age-matched control group (Schirmer test I: 27.08 ± 9.58 mm, Schirmer test II: 19.98 ± 8.48 mm, and TBUT: 13.495 ± 5.65 s) (p = 0.003 [Schirmer test I]; p = 0.001 [Schirmer test II]; and p |
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