Dry eye is a late manifestation in a continuum of disease starting with blepharitis, according to a hypothesis posed by James M. Rynerson, MD, and Henry D. Perry, MD, in a paper published in Clinical Ophthalmology.
The authors proposed the use of a new term to describe the chronic disease: dry eye blepharitis syndrome.
“It’s all the same disease process. It’s simple. We get biofilms, they lead to inflammation, and then the inflammation affects the different structures in the lid. It’s the simplest eye disease to understand, yet we’re trying (Read more...)
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