Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Rolando Toyos

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• Research Article
  The Effects of Intense Pulsed Light on Tear Osmolarity in Dry Eye Disease
  Author(s): Rolando Toyos and Dustin Briscoe Rolando Toyos and Dustin Briscoe
  
  Purpose: In this prospective study we show the influence of Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL) on tear osmolarity, an increasingly important metric of dry eye disease. Previous studies have measured the effectiveness IPL has had on other metrics including tear break up time (TBUT), lipid layer grade (LLG), tear evaporation rate (TER), tear meniscus height (TMH), and subjective responses from patients. Methods: Single center prospective study included 16 patients and 32 eyes. Patient ages ranged from 18 to 90 years old with 75% of participants being female. All patients had an at least one eye with a tear osmolarity of 308 mOsm/L or greater, or had an inter-eye difference in tear osmolarity of 11 mOsm/L or greater. Tear osmolarity was measured bilaterally before a single IPL treatment followed by one drop of topical NSAID. Bilateral tear osmolar.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9570.1000619

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