Effect of chlorhexidine, povidone-iodine and betadine antiseptic eye drops on cultured human conjunctival goblet cell survival.

Rubin Hadad Anne HedengranAlex BarnilsGoran Petrovski Barbara CvenkelTor P UtheimDarlene A DarttSteffen Heegaard Miriam Kolko

Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (2024)

The most used antiseptic treatments, PI and betadine, applied prior to ocular surgery are significantly more cytotoxic to conjunctival GCs than chlorhexidine treatment.

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