DEWS ⅡReport

I’d like to introduce the brand-new Dry Eye Workshop report Ⅱ.

The TFOS Dry Eye Workshop II: Executive Summary.

Craig JP, Nelson JD, Azar DT, Belmonte C, Bron AJ, Chauhan SK, de Paiva CS, Gomes JAP, Hammitt KM, Jones L, Nichols JJ, Nichols KK, Novack GD, Stapleton FJ, Willcox MDP, Wolffsohn JS, Sullivan DA. Ocul Surf. 2017 Aug 7. pii: S1542-0124(17)30214-8.

New Definition of Dry EYe

  • Dry eye is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface characterized by a loss of homeostasis of the tear film, and accompanied by ocular symptoms, in which tear film instability and hyper-osmolarity, ocular surface inflammation and damage, and neurosensory abnormalities play etiological roles.

TFOS DEWS II Diagnostic Methodology report.

Wolffsohn JS, Arita R, Chalmers R, Djalilian A, Dogru M, Dumbleton K, Gupta PK, Karpecki P, Lazreg S, Pult H, Sullivan BD, Tomlinson A, Tong L, Villani E, Yoon KC, Jones L, Craig JP. Ocul Surf. 2017 Jul;15(3):539-574.

I was a member of TFOS DEWS II diagnostic report. I was so honored to be selected as one of this group and to contribute this work.

Very recently, we, LIME working group, published some papers as below. The theme of our manuscripts were “Homeostasis in tear film“. So, I was really happy to know the new definition of dry eye.

Tear Interferometric Patterns Reflect Clinical Tear Dynamics in Dry Eye Patients.

Arita R, Morishige N, Fujii T, Fukuoka S, Chung JL, Seo KY, Itoh K.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Jul 1;57(8):3928-34

Increased Tear Fluid Production as a Compensatory Response to Meibomian Gland Loss: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study.

Arita R, Morishige N, Koh S, Shirakawa R, Kawashima M, Sakimoto T, Suzuki T, Tsubota K.

Ophthalmology. 2015 May;122(5):925-33.

I hope to keep moving forward for patients with dry eye and MGD.