Conjunctival impression cytology in computer users

Kumar, Sanjeev; Bansal, Rani; Khare, Anjali; Malik, K P S; Malik, Virender; Jain, Kriti; Jain, Charu

doi:10.3126/nepjoph.v5i1.7819

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“…Conjunctival impression cytology has a wide range of applications in ophthalmology. It facilitates the diagnosis of ocular surface disorders [6,7]. Results of this study showed that, in a total of 30 patients studied, there were 18 patients with a positive burning sensation (60.0%) and 12 with were negative (40.0%), 22 (73.3%) had negative lacrimation and 8 were positive (26.7%), 17 patients (56.7%) had positive blurring of vision and 13 patients were negative (43.3%), 18 patients had negative photophobia (60.0%) and 12 Patients were positive (40.0%), 23 had negative eye redness (76.7%) and 7 patients were positive (23.3%), and 15 patients had positive Gritty sensation (50.0%).…”

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Conjunctival Impression Cytology for Diagnosis and Grading of Dry Eye

2023

Al-Azhar University Journal of Virus Researches and Studies

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Dry eye or tear film dysfunction is a common ophthalmic syndrome. Goblet cell density is significantly reduced in dry eye syndrome. The impression cytology is a useful test for the diagnosis of dry eye syndrome. The aim of the paper evaluates the conjunctival impression cytology as a diagnostic tool for diagnosis of dry eye and for grading the disease. This study is a prospective, and a non-randomized study that was held at Al-Zahraa University Hospital. It was conducted on sixty eyes of thirty patients. They were diagnosed clinically and by investigations as dry eye. Regarding impression Cytology \Nelson Grade, 14 eyes (23.3%) were grade 1 (mild), 23 eyes (38.3%) were grade 2 (moderate) and 23 eyes (38.3%) were grade 3 (severe). As the severity of dry eye increased, the cytology showed marked cell separation and lowering of N:C ratio with a decrease in goblet cell count. Conjunctival impression cytology provides detailed information about morphological alterations of the bulbar conjunctiva. It has proven to be useful in differentiating the degrees of dry eye disease.

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Conjunctival Impression Cytology for Diagnosis and Grading of Dry Eye

2023

Al-Azhar University Journal of Virus Researches and Studies

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“…CIC findings were reported to be showing mild dysplasia in 25 (16.66%), moderate 7(4.66%), severe 3(2%), acute inflammatory lesions 5(3.33%) & a cellular 31 (20.66%). Kumar S. et al did impression cytologyin computer users and control group [10] . CIC results in control group were of stage 0 and stage I, while in computer user group showed results between stage II to stage IV.…”

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Cytopathological changes on CIC (Conjunctival Impression Cytology) among computer users: A study of 150 cases

Kulkarni¹

2017

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“…Conjunctival impression cytology (CIC), a non-invasive simple technique has been employed to examine the conjunctival changes in dry eye. 1,2…”

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Cytopathological changes on conjunctival impression cytology in computer users

Pooja¹,

Gowda²

2020

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Purpose: To evaluate the cytological changes in conjunctiva in computer users and a control group. Materials and Methods: 28 eyes of an age and sex matched control group were studied by conjunctival impression cytology (CIC). Written informed consent was taken from all the participants. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), slit lamp examination (SLE), fundoscopy, Schirmer test, TBUT, CIC was done in all. H& E staining was carried out on the cellulose acetate strips and morphological changes in epithelial cells, nucleocytoplasmic ratio and goblet cell density were looked into and graded according to Nelson grading. 3 The data was analysed using SPSS version 16.0. Results were expressed as frequency and percentage. Means of groups were compared using ttests. Results: Mean age (in years) in computer users was 24.42 ± 2.18; controls 23.25 ± 2.36 (p= 0.632). Out of 14 participants in each group (28 eyes in each) 15 were males and 13 were females. There was no significant difference with respect to sex in both the groups. Computer users showed CIC results between grade 2 to 3.Whereas control group showed grade 0 and 1. Conclusion: Dry eye was more common in computer users and we found more CIC changes in them.

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Conjunctival impression cytology in computer users

Abstract: We found that those who used computers daily for long hours developed more CIC changes than those who worked at the computer for a shorter daily duration.

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Conjunctival Impression Cytology for Diagnosis and Grading of Dry Eye

Conjunctival Impression Cytology for Diagnosis and Grading of Dry Eye

Cytopathological changes on CIC (Conjunctival Impression Cytology) among computer users: A study of 150 cases

Cytopathological changes on conjunctival impression cytology in computer users

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