Advances in the Treatment of Dry Eye -- Coping with Challenging Cases
An array of options is available for treatment of dry eye, including OTC products, nutritional supplements, and prescription drugs, with some used off-label. The numerous treatments include artificial tears, tear retention, tear stimulation, anti-inflammatory agents, nutritional supplements, mucolytics, retinol, contact lenses, and surgery.

The current recommendation is that treatments be selected in step-wise fashion according to levels of disease severity. Practitioners may modify the treatment recommendations on the basis of their clinical experience and an individual patient’s needs, but many ophthalmologists are uncertain about how to manage patients with dry eye. » Go to this activity

Dry Eye: Go Beyond The Tears -- Peer-to-Peer Patient Chart Reviews
This text-based activity featuring case studies is designed to educate ophthalmologists and optometrists about new pharmacologic agents for the treatment of dry eye, including the anti-CD4 monoclonal antibody, systemic linoleic and gamma-linoleic acids, and omega-3 essential fatty acids, and about differences between the pipeline agents vs. currently-approved agents, and the geographic and ethnic disparities in the prevalence of the disorder. » Go to this activity

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