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EDITORIAL
Dry eyes
The treatment of dry eyes
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J P Whitcher
University of California San Francisco, 95 Kirkham Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-0944, USA; Nepal@itsa.ucsf.edu
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Keywords: autologous serum; ocular surface disease; dry eye; keratoconjunctivitis sicca
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The dry eye is often referred to as a condition, a syndrome, or a disease; and it is likewise known by a variety of terms. Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), or more commonly keratitis sicca, refers to any eye with some degree of dryness either by history or by objective clinical findings. The literature is confusing on this subject and often blurs the difference between the symptoms of dryness and clinical findings based on objective criteria.1 In similar fashion, the term dry eye syndrome is sometimes used interchangeably with dry eye symptoms, a lapse in descriptive terminology that unfortunately clouds the issue. Other descriptive terms for ocular dryness include xerophthalmia, which is used almost exclusively to describe the eye findings associated with vitamin A deficiency in children, and xerosis, which connotes the extreme ocular dryness and keratinisation that sometimes occurs after Stevens-Johnson syndrome, trachoma, and other causes of severe conjunctival
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