{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,12]],"date-time":"2026-05-12T06:01:46Z","timestamp":1778565706489,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Georg Thieme Verlag KG","issue":"04","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,4]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:p>\n          Purpose To assess the prevalence of epiphora in the general adult population based on PubMed search citations.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Methods 1) Electronic PubMed MEDLINE database search (September 13, 2019) with the terms (Medical Subject Headings or MeSH) \u201cprevalence\u201d and \u201cepiphora\u201d, 2) \u201cepiphora\u201d and \u201cdry eye\u201d, and 3) \u201cprevalence\u201d, \u201cepiphora\u201d, and \u201cdry eye\u201d. Review of all citations from these searches containing the term \u201cepiphora\u201d either in their abstract or title.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Results 1) PubMed search retrieved 2\u200a617\u200a137 citations for \u201cprevalence\u201d, 26\u200a135 for \u201cepiphora\u201d, and 2554 for \u201cprevalence\u201d AND \u201cepiphora\u201d. Within the latter 2554 citations, the word \u201cepiphora\u201d appeared in the abstract or title of only 109\u00a0citations (&lt;\u20095%). None of these 109 citations assessed the prevalence of epiphora in the adult general population as the primary end point. Only one abstract mentioned that out of 125 patients, 7.2% indicated, retrospectively, that they had already had epiphora before cataract surgery. Two large population-based studies addressed the incidence of epiphora, not in adults, but in infants (20%) and children (7.7%). 2) The PubMed search showed 22\u200a487 citations for \u201cdry eye\u201d, 30\u200a211 for \u201cepiphora\u201d OR \u201cdry eye\u201d, and up to 18\u200a414 joint citations for the terms \u201cepiphora\u201d AND \u201cdry eye\u201d. These 18\u200a414 citations were 70 and 82% of the number of MeSH citations for \u201cepiphora\u201d and \u201cdry eye\u201d alone, respectively. Of these 18\u200a414 citations, the word \u201cepiphora\u201d only appeared in 131 citations (&lt;\u20091%), one of them being an extra report mentioning a 32% incidence of epiphora among postmenopausal women. 3) The search found 2206 citations for \u201cprevalence\u201d AND \u201cepiphora\u201d AND \u201cdry eye\u201d, with only 10 of them (&lt;\u20091%) containing the word \u201cepiphora\u201d.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Conclusions Despite a large number of citations retrieved by PubMed searches, there seems to be a lack of studies on the prevalence of epiphora in the adult general population. There is apparently also a large number of overlapping PubMed citations retrieved for searches with the terms \u201cepiphora\u201d AND \u201cdry eye\u201d, although more than 99% of them did not even display the word \u201cepiphora\u201d. Although epiphora is considered a common complain, its prevalence in the adult general population deserves to be further assessed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-1112-7335","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,24]],"date-time":"2020-04-24T22:52:45Z","timestamp":1587768765000},"page":"527-530","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["A PubMed Citations Search Study on the Prevalence of Epiphora in the General Adult Population"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"237","author":[{"given":"Ivan O.","family":"Haefliger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Oculoplastic Surgery, Holbein PraxisKlinik, Basel, Switzerland"},{"name":"Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yasmina D.","family":"Haefliger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Oculoplastic Surgery, Holbein PraxisKlinik, Basel, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ana Rosa","family":"Pimentel de Figueiredo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Oculoplastic Surgery, Hospital Sao Geraldo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Faculdade de Medicina, Belo Horizonte, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,24]]},"container-title":["Klinische Monatsbl\u00e4tter f\u00fcr Augenheilkunde"],"original-title":[],"language":"de","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.thieme-connect.de\/products\/ejournals\/pdf\/10.1055\/a-1112-7335.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,5]],"date-time":"2020-05-05T11:43:13Z","timestamp":1588678993000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.thieme-connect.de\/DOI\/DOI?10.1055\/a-1112-7335"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,4]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"04","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,24]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,4]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1055\/a-1112-7335","relation":{},"ISSN":["0023-2165","1439-3999"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0023-2165","type":"print"},{"value":"1439-3999","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,4]]}}}