Table 6 of Ban, Mol Vis 2011; 17:2533-2543.

Table 6. Comparison of meibomian glands assessed by in vivo laser confocal microscopy, MG expressibility, meibography and lid margin abnormality between the DE/cGVHD group without systemic cGVHD and non-DE/non-cGVHD group.




Examinations		 DE/cGVHD group
without systemic
cGVHD
(7 eyes, 4 cases)
non-DE/non-cGVHD
group
(16 eyes, 8 cases)


p-value
MGAUD (glands/mm2) 85.3±32.3 88.8±26.6 0.8021
MGALD (μm) 63.0±14.2 60.4±11.8 0.65
MGASD (μm) 27.6±12.0 26.6±6.03 0.7888
Fibrosis (grade) 0.71±0.59 0.06±0.25 0.0016‡
MG expressibility (points) 2.20±1.10 0.75±0.93 0.0189‡
Meibography (grade) 1.14±0.69 0.50±0.52 0.0399‡
Lid margin (grade) 2.0±1.41 0.38±0.72 0.0019‡

DE=dry eye; cGVHD=chronic graft-versus-host disease; MGAUD=meibomian gland acinar unit density; MGALD=meibomian gland acinar longest diameter; MGASD=meibomian gland acinar shortest diameter; MG=meibomian gland; ‡=Mann–Whitney test.

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