The Association between Tear Film Thickness as Measured with OCT and Symptoms and Signs of Dry Eye Disease: A Pooled Analysis of 6 Clinical Trials.

Gerhard GarhöferValentin Aranha Dos SantosHannes Stegmann Doreen SchmidlNarine AdzhemianRené M WerkmeisterLeopold Schmetterer

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2020)

The present study demonstrates an objective measurement of TFT using a novel OCT approach for DED that correlates with symptoms and signs of DED. Our data are consistent with the idea that TFT represents the aqueous-deficient component of DED.

Keyphrases

optical coherence tomography
clinical trial
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open label