WAILEA, Hawaii — Lifitegrast and cyclosporine are not only useful for long-term management of dry eye disease but are also effective in pre-cataract surgery patients with dry eye, according to a speaker at Hawaiian Eye 2021.
“Immunomodulators are not just for patients to take forever when they have dry eye,” John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, said. “They actually are very useful in the short term.”
Hovanesian and colleagues conducted two similar studies to measure biometry in patients with “significant” dry eye who were preparing to undergo cataract surgery