Advances in the Noninvasive Diagnosis of Dry Eye Disease

Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease that represents one of the most common ophthalmologic conditions encountered in everyday clinical practice. Traditional diagnostic tests for DED, such as subjective questionnaires, tear film break-up time and the Schirmer test, are often associated with poor reproducibility and reliability, which make the diagnosis, follow-up, and management of the disease challenging. New advances in imaging technologies enable objective and reproducible measurements of DED parameters, thus making the diagnosis a multimodal imaging-based process. The aim of this review is to summarize all the current and emerging diagnostic tools available for the diagnosis and monitoring of DED, such as non-invasive tear breakup time, thermography, anterior segment optical coherence tomography, meibography, interferometry, in vivo confocal microscopy, and optical quality assessment. Although there is not a gold standard imaging technique, new multi-imaging-integrated devices are precious instruments to help clinicians to better cope with the diagnostic complexity of DED..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Applied Sciences - 11(2021), 21, p 10384

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luca Di Cello [VerfasserIn]
Marco Pellegrini [VerfasserIn]
Aldo Vagge [VerfasserIn]
Massimiliano Borselli [VerfasserIn]
Lorenzo Ferro Desideri [VerfasserIn]
Vincenzo Scorcia [VerfasserIn]
Carlo E. Traverso [VerfasserIn]
Giuseppe Giannaccare [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Advanced imaging
Biology (General)
Chemistry
Diagnosis
Dry eye
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
NIBUT
Noninvasive diagnosis
Physics
T
Technology

doi:

10.3390/app112110384

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DOAJ062911252