Silvia López-Plandolit, María-Celia Morales, Vanesa Freire, Arturo E Grau, Juan A Durán PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy of plasma rich in growth factors (PRGF) for the treatment of moderate/severe dry eye. METHODS: PRGF treatment was administered to 16 patients who...
Kimberly MM, Vesper HW, Caudill SP, Ethridge SF, Archibold E, Porter KH, Myers GL. ABSTRACT: Background: The American Diabetes Association recommends that people with diabetes use self-monitoring to control their blood glucose concentration. To assess the need for...
Volles DF, McKenney JM, Miller WG, Ruffen D, Zhang D. ABSTRACT: Several relatively inexpensive compact analyzers for measuring cholesterol are available for use outside of the clinical laboratory. We evaluated the analytic and clinical performance of total cholesterol...
JMICHAEL A. LEMP, ANTHONY J. BRON, CHRISTOPHE BAUDOUIN, JOSÉ M. BENÍTEZ DEL CASTILLO, DAVID GEFFEN, JOE TAUBER, GARY N. FOULKS, JAY S. PEPOSE, AND BENJAMIN D. SULLIVAN PURPOSE: To evaluate the use of tear osmolarity in the diagnosis of dry eye disease. DESIGN: A...
Alan Tomlinson, Santosh Khanal, Kanna Ramaesh, Charles Diaper, and Angus McFadyen PURPOSE: To determine new referents, or cutoff levels for tear film hyperosmolarity in the diagnosis of keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) and to assess their effectiveness in independent...
Jennifer P. Craig, MCOptom, PhD, Kelly K. Nichols, OD, PhD, Esen K. Akpek, MD, Barbara Caffery, OD, PhD, Harminder S. Dua, MD, PhD, Choun-Ki Joo, MD, PhD, Zuguo Liu, MD, PhD, J. Daniel Nelson, MD, Jason J. Nichols, OD, PhD, Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, Fiona Stapleton,...
