Publications by authors named "Francesco Menduni"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to translate and validate the Italian version of the CLDEQ-8 questionnaire, which assesses the discomfort experienced by soft contact lens wearers.
- It involved two phases: first, translating the questionnaire using forward and backward methods, and second, conducting a multi-center validation study to evaluate its reliability and validity against participants' self-assessments of eye sensitivity and dryness.
- The results indicated that CLDEQ-8_IT is a reliable tool with a recommended cutoff score of 12 points, effectively distinguishing between varying levels of user satisfaction and providing insights for potential clinical management.
Purpose: To evaluate demographic and lifestyle factors associated with aqueous deficient and evaporative dry eye disease.
Methods: A total of 1125 general public visitors (707 females, mean ± SD age, 33 ± 21, range 5-90 years) at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition were recruited in a cross-sectional study. A demographic and lifestyle factor questionnaire was administered, and dry eye symptomology (DEQ-5 score), ocular surface characteristics (conjunctival hyperaemia, and infrared meibography), and tear film parameters (tear meniscus height, non-invasive breakup time, and lipid layer grade) were evaluated for the left eye of each participant within a single session.
Characterisation of the porcine eyeball as an in-vitro model for dry eye.
Cont Lens Anterior Eye
February 2018
Purpose: To characterise the anatomical parameters of the porcine eye for potentially using it as a laboratory model of dry eye.
Methods: Anterior chamber depth and angle, corneal curvature, shortest and longest diameter, endothelial cell density, and pachymetry were measured in sixty freshly enucleated porcine eyeballs.
Results: Corneal steepest meridian was 7.