Corneal Epithelial Thickness Changes After Topical Treatment of Dry Eye Disease in Primary Sjögren Syndrome.
Tomás de Oliveira LoureiroSandra Rodrigues-BarrosAna Rita CarreiraFilipe MoraesPedro CarreiraAna Vide EscadaPaul CamposInes MachadoNuno CamposRenato AmbrósioTimothy J ArcherDan Z ReinsteinPublished in: Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) (2023)
Treatment with sodium hyaluronate improved ST1, TBUT, TMH, SICCA-OSS, and OSDI score. Superior epithelium tends to be thinner in SS-DED but becomes thicker with treatment. Our results seem to illustrate the morphological changes in the corneal epithelium in DED, which could be further recognized as a clinical biomarker of SS-DED.