Contact Lenses: Treatment Options for Ocular DiseaseThis book addresses how to prevent adverse ocular effects when fitting contact lenses, and how to manage and treat ocular disease with specialized contact lenses. Key terms and clinical pearls are presented in each chapter. Chapter topics include Microbial Infection in Contact Lens Wear, Dry Eyes, Soft Lens Extended Wear, RGP Extended Wear, and more. |
Contents
Microbial Infection in Contact Lens Wear | 1 |
Dry Eyes and Contact Lens Wear | 23 |
Soft Lens Extended Wear | 51 |
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Acanthamoeba keratitis acute red eye Arch Ophthalmol associated biomicroscopic blepharitis Brennan caused cell chronic CLINICAL PEARL clinician CLPC color complications cone-rod dystrophy conjunctival Cont Lens Clin contact lens patients contact lens wear corneal edema corneal infection corneal ulcers daily wear daily-wear discomfort disinfection dry eye dryness effect Efron endothelial epithelial epithelial staining epithelium Etiology factors FIGURE filter fitting fluorescein fungal keratitis giant papillary conjunctivitis Glasflex grade Holden BA hydrogel extended wear hydrogel lenses hyperemia hypoxia increased infiltrates Int Cont Lens Inv Ophthalmol lens surface lens wearers limbal meibomian gland microcysts normal observed occurs ocular Ophthalmol Vis Sci optical Optom Physiol Opt Optometry oxygen transmissibility papillary conjunctivitis photophobia PMMA Polse polymegethism practitioner problems punctate refractive response RGPEW rigid gas-permeable Signs and Symptoms soft contact lenses soft lens solutions superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis surface deposits tear film tear function therapeutically tinted tion ulcerative keratitis vision loss visual acuity water content X-Chrome