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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen C. Pflugfelder, Miami, FL (US);
Scheffer C. G. Tseng, Miami, FL (US);
Adolfo Afonso, Miami, FL (US);
Angelo Macri, Genova, IT;
Assignee:
The University of Miami, Miami, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ;
Abstract
A method of evaluating clearance of fluorescein dye instilled into tear film having a greater sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing a tear film disorder as the cause of a patient's ocular irritation and ocular surface disease than can be achieved using the traditional methods. The inventive method can be performed using a diagnostic kit for evaluating tear fluorescence clearance in which the concentration of tear fluorescein is visually quantified via a color standard.