Tear Ferning Test for Dry Eye Diagnosis

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dry Eye Syndromes

Treatments: Other: with/without dry eye syndrome

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06364943

202400020B0

Details and patient eligibility

About

Application of tear ferning test for clinical dry eye diagnosis

Full description

Comparing dry eye patients' tear ferning structure with non-dry eye patients' to develop a protocol for easy and costless diagnosis in ophthalmology.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged between 20 and 65 years
• For dry eye disease group:
• Schirmer's test results between 5 - 10 mm
• Tear Film Break Up Time less than 10 seconds
• Ocular Surface Disease Index of more than 25

Exclusion criteria

• Those have diabetes, hypertension or other chronic diseases
• No evident ocular diseases such as cornea disease, cataracts, vitreous degeneration, glaucoma, and retinopathy.
• Belong to vulnerable groups(pregnancy woman, prisoner, ethical minorities, economic or educationally disadvantaged subjects, disabled individuals such as those at terminal stage of tumorigenesis, blindness, terminal ill individuals)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry eye patients

No Intervention group

Description:

Collect clinical information and tear samples from patients with dry eye syndrome.

Non-Dry eye patients

Other group

Description:

Collect clinical information and tear samples from patients without dry eye syndrome.

Treatment:

Other: with/without dry eye syndrome