Efficacy of recombinant human epidermal growth factor plus sodium hyaluronate eye drops in diabetic dry eye post-cataract surgery
Jun-Ling Li, Zhen-Feng Guo, Chang Xiao, Department of Ophthalmology, Tianjin Beichen Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nankai University, Tianjin 300400, China
Jin Zhao, Xuan Liu, Department of Ophthalmology, Xianyang First People’s Hospital, Xianyang 712000, Shaanxi Province, China
Co-first authors: Jun-Ling Li and Jin Zhao.
Author contributions: Li JL and Zhao J designed the research and wrote the first manuscript; Li JL, Zhao J, Guo ZF, Xiao C and Liu X contributed to conceiving the research and analyzing data; Li JL, Zhao J and Liu X conducted the analysis and provided guidance for the research; all authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript. Li JL and Zhao J contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors.
Supported by Tianjin Health Research Project, No. TJWJ2023MS062.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Tianjin Beichen Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Nankai University.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: All data and materials are available from the corresponding author.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Xuan Liu, MM, Doctor, Department of Ophthalmology, Xianyang First People’s Hospital, No. 10 Biyuan Road, Qindu District, Xianyang 712000, Shaanxi Province, China. lx641131366@126.com
Received: January 19, 2024
Revised: March 5, 2024
Accepted: April 17, 2024
Published online: June 15, 2024
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