title: Current Approach to Dry Eye Disease.
abstract: Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease of the tears and ocular surface that causes tear film instability with potential damage to the ocular surface. The prevalence of dry eye in the world population ranges from 6 to 34 %. It is more common in those aged over 50, and affects mainly women. Since the introduction of the Schirmer's test in 1903, other tests have been developed to evaluate dry eye, such as biomicroscopy, the tear film breakup time (BUT), vital dyes (lissamine green and rose bengal), fluorescein, leaf fern test, corneal sensitivity test, conjunctiva impression cytology, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and tear osmolarity measurement. Although there is no gold standard, it is advisable to combine at least two tests. Strategies for treating DED have recently been modified and include patient education, tear substitute, corticosteroids, secretagogues, fatty acids, immunomodulators, occlusion of lacrimal puncta surgery and, tarsorrhaphy. Biological therapy and new topical immunomodulators such as tacrolimus, tofacitinib and IL-1 receptor inhibitor are being tested. In this review, the evaluation tests for dry eye are compared and the main studies on treatment are presented, with emphasis on studies in patients with Sjögren's syndrome. The authors propose an approach for the management of dry eye.
authors: Centro de Referência de Doenças Reumáticas, Serviço de Reumatologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Hospital Universitário Cassiano Antonio de Moraes, Rua Marechal Campos, 1468, Maruípe, Vitória, ES, Brazil, 29040-091. val.valim@gmail.com.|Scientific Committee on Sjögren's Syndrome, Brazilian Society of Rheumatology, Av. Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 2466, Bela Vista, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01402-000. val.valim@gmail.com.
authors: Valéria
authors: V
authors: Valim
authors: Disciplina de Medicina de Urgência e Medicina Baseada em Evidências, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu 740 Vila Clementino, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 04023-062.|Universidade de Santo Amaro, Rua Enéas Siqueira Neto, Jardim das Embuias, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.|Scientific Committee on Sjögren's Syndrome, Brazilian Society of Rheumatology, Av. Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 2466, Bela Vista, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01402-000.
authors: Virginia Fernandes Moça
authors: VF
authors: Trevisani
authors: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM), Departamento de Oftalmologia e Ciências Visuais, Rua Botucatu 820, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 04023-062.
authors: Jacqueline Martins
authors: JM
authors: de Sousa
authors: Disciplina de Reumatologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Avenida 28 de Setembro 77, Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 20551-900.|Scientific Committee on Sjögren's Syndrome, Brazilian Society of Rheumatology, Av. Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 2466, Bela Vista, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01402-000.
authors: Verônica Silva
authors: VS
authors: Vilela
authors: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM), Departamento de Oftalmologia e Ciências Visuais, Rua Botucatu 820, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 04023-062.
authors: Rubens
authors: R
authors: Belfort
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001691:Biological Therapy; D015352:Dry Eye Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D012737:Sex Factors; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence
chemical_list: D007155:Immunologic Factors
keywords: Cornea; Dry eye disease; Ocular surface; Sjögren’s syndrome