Epiphora Due to Insufficient Drainage Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Role of Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography in Management of Acquired Punctal Stenosis
This is a clinical trial study that was conducted on patients with punctal stenosis.We studied the diameter of stenosed puncta before and after treatment with preserved free steroid eye drops using AS-OCT.
The study was conducted on 40 eyes of 24 patients have acquired inflammatory punctal stenosis and 20 eyes of 10 patients of normal asymptomatic subjects as control group. We studied the external punctal diameter, visibility of the internal punctum and punctal depth before treatment using AS-OCT, and then patients were re-evaluated after one month of treatment with preservative free methylprednisolone 5% eye drops. ;