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Ocular Discomfort Upon Tear Drying
(University of Waterloo, 2003)
<b>Purpose:</b> Assess the relationship between tear film drying and sensation between blinks. <b>Methods:</b> MATLAB sampled a slitlamp video camera, a potentiometer and a microphone while subjects kept one eye open ...
Novel methods for the evaluation of the tear film in the diagnosis of dry eye
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-27)
Dry eye is a complex, multi-factorial disease that results in a compromised tear film and ocular surface. Clinicians and researchers alike have historically relied on an individual’s symptoms to diagnose and manage the ...
Sjogren's Syndrome: A Clinical and Biochemical Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)
Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disease that presents to eye care
practitioners with the hallmark symptom of “dry eye.” Stratifying dry eye patients as Sjogren’s positive or negative is a critical ...
Aspects of Corneal Fluorescein Staining
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-25)
PURPOSE
Evaluating the cornea for epithelial fluorescein staining is a key element of the ocular examination of contact lens wearers and people with dry eye disease. It has long been viewed as a method of visualizing a ...
Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Dry Eye
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)
Introduction
Dry eye (DE) disease is characterized by symptoms including, but not limited to, ocular stinging, burning, and tearing. The symptoms can range from being mildly irritating, to severely debilitating and ...
Cellular changes at the lid margin
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-28)
PURPOSE: The hypothesis underlying this thesis is that CL wear, lid wiper epitheliopathy (LWE), and symptoms of dryness and discomfort may be manifest as cellular changes of the lid marginal epithelium, as a result of ...
Infrared Imaging of Meibomian Glands and Evaluation of the Lipid Layer in Sjogren's Syndrome Patients and Nondry Eye Controls
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2015-05-02)
Purpose.: The purpose of this study was to evaluate meibomian gland dropout and lipid layer thickness (LLT) in patients with and without Sjögren's syndrome dry eye (SS). Methods.: We recruited 11 participants with SS ...