Tears evaluation of one sample of keratoconus patients in kuala lumpur

Tears evaluation of one sample of keratoconus patients in kuala lumpur

To evaluate tears of newly diagnosed keratoconus patients attending the Optometry clinic in Malaysia and to compare this with tears of normal myopic subjects. The ocular surface of newly diagnosed keratoconus patients were evaluated using tear break up time (TBUT) test, non invasive tear break up ti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Medical journal of Malaysia 2011-03, Vol.66 (1), p.53-55
Hauptverfasser: Mohd-Ali, B, Liew, L Y, Tai, H J, Wong, Y Y
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Sprache:eng
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Humans
Keratoconus
Malaysia
Tears
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Zusammenfassung:To evaluate tears of newly diagnosed keratoconus patients attending the Optometry clinic in Malaysia and to compare this with tears of normal myopic subjects. The ocular surface of newly diagnosed keratoconus patients were evaluated using tear break up time (TBUT) test, non invasive tear break up time test (NIBUT) and Schirmer test. Twenty keratoconus patients (40 eyes) and 40 normal subjects (80 eyes) participated in this study. Significantly lower TBUT and NIBUT values were found in keratoconus patients than normal control subjects (p
ISSN:0300-5283