The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Cornea Clinical Committee has provided us another excellent guideline for the diagnosis and management of dry eye disease.
I use a mnemonic when doing a differential diagnosis of ocular surface disease (OSD) that my fellows have found useful. I call it the ABCD of OSD. A stands for allergy, B for blepharitis/meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), C for conjunctivitis and D for dry eye disease (DED). Of course, many patients share more than one of these diagnoses and some all four, so the (Read more...)
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