How red is a white eye? Clinical grading of normal conjunctival hyperaemia

Eye
Paul J MurphyRussell L Woods

Abstract

To quantify the level of normal bulbar conjunctival hyperaemia using the Cornea and Contact Lens Research Unit (CCLRU) grading scale, and to investigate inter-observer agreement. Bulbar conjunctival hyperaemia was assessed by two trained observers, using the CCLRU grading scale (zero to four units) interpolated into 0.1 increments, on the right eye of 121 healthy, non-contact lens-wearing subjects (male=58, female=63, median age=28 years, range 16-77). The eye was observed using a slit-lamp bio-microscope (x 10 magnification) under diffuse, white illumination. The subject's position of gaze was directed to allow grading of four quadrants: superior, nasal, inferior, and temporal conjunctiva. Bulbar redness was defined as the average of those four grades of conjunctival hyperaemia. A further twenty subjects were recruited to assess inter-observer agreement (male=8, female=12, median age=23 years). The average bulbar redness was 1.93 (+/-0.32 SD) units. The nasal (2.3+/-0.4) and temporal (2.1+/-0.4) quadrants were significantly redder than the superior (1.6+/-0.4) and inferior (1.7+/-0.4) quadrants (P<0.0001). Males had redder eyes than females by 0.2 units. Inter-observer 95% limits of agreement for bulbar redness was 0.38 units....Continue Reading

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