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Patients with ocular allergies seek comfort, relief

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Patients with ocular allergies seek comfort, relief

In multicenter study, participants rate one combination drug better than another

Reviewed by Andrea Leonardi, MD

Olopatadine 0.1% (Patanol, Alcon Laboratories) was the drug of choice in an efficacy and comfort comparison with ketotifen 0.025% (Zaditor, Novartis Ophthalmics).

A greater percentage of patients reported that olopatadine was more efficacious and comfortable in the treatment of ocular allergy symptoms, according to study authors Andrea Leonardi, MD, and Panayotis Zafirakis, MD.

The multicenter, double-masked environmental patient-preference trial was conducted in Italy and Greece, where the investigators reported ...

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