Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography of Tear Film and Cornea in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients.

Mohamed Salah El-Din MahmoudMohamed Abdel Hamid Mohamed Farouk Sayed Othman Abdelkader

Published in: Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) (2021)

We demonstrated significant reduction of tear meniscus dimensions, central corneal thickness and epithelial thickness in SLE patients compared to age-matched controls using AS-OCT.

Keyphrases

optical coherence tomography
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
systemic lupus erythematosus
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
diabetic retinopathy
rheumatoid arthritis
gold nanoparticles
patient reported outcomes
disease activity
patient reported