J.ophthalmol.(Ukraine).2020;2:30-35.
http://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh202023035
Received: 21 January 2020; Published on-line: 30 April 2020
Optimizing the treatment for dry eye syndrome in patients with allergic conjunctivitis
F.A. Bakhritdinova,1 Dr Sc (Med), Prof.; S.A. Mirrakhimova,2 Dr Sc (Med), Ass. Prof.; K.I. Narzikulova,1 Dr Sc (Med), Ass. Prof.; Zh.O. Safarov, 2 Assistant; O.I. Oripov,1 Assistant
1 Ophthalmology Department, Tashkent Medical Academy; Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
2 Eye Disease Department, Samarkand State Medical Institute; Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
E-mail: okil.oripov@mail.ru
TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Bakhritdinova FA, Mirrakhimova SA, Narzikulova KI, Safarov ZhO, Oripov OI. Optimizing the treatment for dry eye syndrome in patients with allergic conjunctivitis. J.ophthalmol.(Ukraine).2020;2:30-35. http://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh202023035
Background: Allergic conjunctivitis is commonly complicated by secondary dry eye syndrome that substantially affects the quality of life of patients and requires a comprehensive approach to treatment.
Purpose: To improve treatment of dry eye patients with allergic conjunctivitis through the use of artificial tears.
Material and Methods: Fifty-six patients with acute allergic conjunctivitis complicated by secondary dry eye syndrome were included in the study. The main group, but not the control group, received artificial tears as adjunct to basic therapy. A comprehensive analysis included a study of clinical symptoms, status of the tear complex and meibomian glands.
Results: In addition to improvements in scores of subjective symptom questionnaire, and Schirmer test and tear film break up time (TFBUT) measurements, more apparent improvements in signs of disease were found in patients who received artificial tears as an adjunct to basic therapy beginning from day 10. The most severe meibographic evidence of morphological defects in gland ducts was seen in the papillary and follicular forms of conjunctivitis.
Conclusion: Comprehensive therapy with introduction of artificial tears as an adjunct at day 10 of basic treatment is a reasonable and pathogenetically substantiated corrective treatment for poor tear film function in the acute phase of allergic conjunctivitis.
Keywords: allergic conjunctivitis, dry eye syndrome, tear substitute therapy, meibography
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.