Dry eye and Meige’s syndrome
- aDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan, bDepartment of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, cDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan
- Kazuo Tsubota, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Dental College, 11-13 Sugano 5 Chome, Ichikawa-shi, Chiba, Japan 272.
- Accepted 13 January 1997
Abstract
AIMS To determine the relation between dry eye and Meige’s syndrome.
METHODS 325 patients with dry eye were divided into those responsive to topical and other forms of treatment (n=276) and those who were not (n=49). A neuropsychiatric examination was performed to check for Meige’s syndrome in the latter group.
RESULTS Twenty eight (57%) of the treatment unresponsive patients were diagnosed with Meige’s syndrome.
CONCLUSIONS There is a subgroup of patients with dry eye who do not respond to simple therapy. More than half of these patients have Meige’s syndrome and need psychiatric, as well as ophthalmic, care.
