Journal
OPHTHALMOLOGY AND THERAPY
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 1681-1704Publisher
SPRINGER INT PUBL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s40123-022-00557-0
Keywords
Anti-glaucomatous medications; Benzalkonium chloride; Ocular surface disease; Preservative-free formulation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81970801]
- Hunan Province research and development plan funding projects in key areas [2020SK2133]
- Science and Technology Foundation of Changsha, Hunan, China [kh1801229]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China [2019JJ40001]
- Science and Technology Foundation of Aier Eye Hospital Group, China [AR1906D1, AM1906D2]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
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Topical anti-glaucomatous medications are crucial for lowering intraocular pressure, but prolonged use can harm the ocular surface. Therefore, it is important to manage the ocular surface in patients with glaucoma by selecting better-tolerated drugs, preservative-free formulations, and considering surgery or laser treatment to prevent damage.
Topical anti-glaucomatous medications are still the most important measure to lower intraocular pressure. Large number of studies have confirmed that long-term use of anti-glaucomatous eye drops, especially containing benzalkonium chloride, a preservative, can cause or aggravate ocular surface injury. Ocular surface diseases damage the ocular microenvironmental health status, reduce the patients' compliance with the treatment, and finally affect the treatment result. Therefore, the ocular surface management of patients with glaucoma is very important. This includes the selection of drugs that are better tolerated according to individual conditions, preservative-free formulations, drugs that protect against ocular surface disease, or selecting surgery and laser treatment, to prevent the damage to the ocular surface by topical anti-glaucomatous drugs.
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