The correlation between plasma osmolarity and tear osmolarity
Autor: | Hisaharu Suzuki, Hiroshi Takahashi, Chiaki Fujimoto, H. Takahashi, Maika Kobayashi, Tsutomu Igarashi |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty genetic structures medicine.medical_treatment Plasma 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ophthalmology Diabetes mellitus Humans Medicine In patient Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Osmolar Concentration Middle Aged Cataract surgery medicine.disease Tear osmolarity eye diseases 030104 developmental biology Tears 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Dry Eye Syndromes Female Plasma osmolarity sense organs business |
Zdroj: | International Ophthalmology. 38:493-501 |
ISSN: | 1573-2630 0165-5701 |
Popis: | To the correlation between plasma osmolarity (Posm) and tear osmolarity (Tosm) in patients (54 patients, 88 eyes) who underwent cataract surgery was evaluated.Before cataract surgery, routine pre-operative biochemical tests were performed, and Posm was determined from blood samples. Also, Tosm was measured using the TearLab system, and objective signs including tear break-up time (BUT), fluorescein staining, lissamine green staining, and Schirmer's test were evaluated. Dry eye (DE) was diagnosed according to the Japanese criteria for DE.Of the 88 eyes, 4 were diagnosed as definite DE, 70 as probable DE, and 14 as normal. Since the number of definite DE was small, the eyes were divided into two groups: normal group (n = 14) and DE group (n = 74), which included definite DE (n = 4) and probable DE (n = 70). There was no correlation between Posm and Tosm, though Posm (293.32 mOsm/L) was significantly higher than Tosm (288.48 mOsm/L; p 0.001). There was no significant difference in Tosm between the normal group (288.29 mOsm/L) and the DE group (288.51 mOsm/L). No patients had a Tosm higher than 310 mOsm/L even in the DE group. Correlations between Posm/Tosm and each DE sign value were not found. Of 54 patients, 18 were diabetic. Posm was significantly higher in diabetic (295.78 mOsm/L) than in non-diabetic (292.36 mOsm/L; p = 0.014) patients, while there was no significant difference in Tosm between diabetic and non-diabetic patients.The results suggest that Tosm is independent of Posm, and Tosm elevation in DE occurs by some local mechanisms. |
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