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Comparison of Evaporimetry With the Established Methods of Tear Film Measurement

NCT01496482 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2011-12-22

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Summary

Purpose:

To establish whether there is a correlation between dry eye symptoms, age and gender, a difference in symptom intensity in different times of the day, which test (Schirmer or TBUT) better correlates with dry eye symptoms, whether it is possible to reliably use cheap, easy to use hygrometer in everyday clinical setting, and finally whether there is statistically significant correlation between applied tests (TBUT, Schirmer and evaporimetry).

Methods:

Subjects: 45 in group without dry eye related symptoms, and 45 in group with symptoms.

Examination included structured case history (questionnaire), slit lamp examination with fluorescein staining, periocular evaporimetry, TBUT test and Schirmer test.

Conditions

  • Dry Eye Syndromes

Interventions

OTHER

Only measurements done on subjects in both groups.

As study compared specific diagnostic procedures, no intervention was done or compared.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Zagreb

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Igor Petricek, MD, PhD · Zagreb University Hospital Eye Department, Zagreb, Croatia

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
61 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • Croatia

Study Locations

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