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Certain systemic diseases, such as Sjögren syndrome (SS), facial rosacea, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and peripheral artery disease, and a history of daily cigarette smoking are significantly associated with more severe dry eye disease (DED) signs, a study has found.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) show progressive reduction in the thickness of peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer, suggestive of early neurodegeneration, a recent study has found.

The addition of corticosteroids (ie, prednisolone) to NSAID eyedrops (ie, ketorolac) did not provide additional benefit relative to ketorolac alone or dropless surgery using a sub-Tenon capsule depot as an anti-inflammatory prophylactic regimen to prevent postoperative central macular thickening following uncomplicated cataract surgery, a Danish study suggests.

The use of Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) IRIS plaques is an effective treatment approach to iris, iridociliary, and ciliary body melanoma, a recent study has found.