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Doctor to Patient Meibography Counselling Tool
The visual demonstration enhances patient compliance with treatments and early intervention. Examples of upper and lower lid images from Meibox showing Meibomian gland dropout. ... Read More
Are You Testing this Vital Ocular Sign?
OptometricManagement.com While 40% to 60% of symptomatic dry eye patients have significant inflammation, traditional testing methods, such as tear breakup time and Schirmer’s, can’t predict which patients they ... Read More
Prospective, Multicenter, Clinical Evaluation of Point-of-Care Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Test for Confirming Dry Eye Disease
Robert Sambursky, MD, William F. Davitt III, MD, Murray Friedberg, MD, and Shachar Tauber, MD ● PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the negative and positive agreement of a point-of-care matrix ... Read More
MMP-9 and the perioperative management of LASIK surgery
Robert Sambursky and Terrence P. O’Brien ● PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Hyperosmolarity is a central mechanism causing ocular surface inflammation and eye irritation in typical patients suffering from tear dysfunction. Tear ... Read More
Analytic and clinical performance of two compact cholesterol-testing devices
Volles DF, McKenney JM, Miller WG, Ruffen D, Zhang D. ABSTRACT: Several relatively inexpensive compact analyzers for measuring cholesterol are available for use outside of the clinical laboratory. We evaluated ... Read More