SAN FRANCISCO — Dry eye is an umbrella term that covers multiple etiologies and different presentations.
“As a community, we need to come up with some terminology that we can all agree on that is going to help our patients,” Anat Galor, MD, said during Cornea Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
Classifying dry eye according to the two broad subcategories of primary and secondary dry eye is, in her opinion, a good place to start. While the signs and symptoms of primary dry eye come from abnormalities in the lacrimal glands, meibomian glands and