Treatment of chronic dry eye: focus on cyclosporine.

To review the current treatment of chronic dry eye syndrome, focusing on cyclosporine A (CsA), a systematic literature search was performed using PubMed databases in two steps. The first step was oriented to articles published for dry eye. The second step was focused on the use of CsA in dry eye.

Idiopathic recurrence of diffuse lamellar keratitis after LASIK.

Purpose: To report a case of late recurrence of bilateral diffuse lamellar keratitis (DLK) after LASIK.

Methods: A 39-year-old woman presented in the early postoperative period with bilateral DLK after hyperopic LASIK and was treated with topical steroids. One year after and with no obvious cause (idiopathic), recurrence of the same stage (stage III) of disease was observed.