A contact lens wearer develops a corneal ulcer that is nonresponsive to multiple therapies.A case study of a 55-year-old man with soft contact lens and blurry vision in die right eye is presented. The patient was diagnosed for a corneal abrasion in the right eye at the Wills Eye Cornea ...
Here \(\hat{j}\) is a unit vector in the vertical direction (i.e. up for a standing contact lens wearer), and \(\hat{n}_\textrm{disk} = (\cos \theta , \sin \theta ,0)\) is the unit outward normal of the circular disk in the radial direction. Our assumption is that u(z...
yeei keratitis in one contact lens wearer.A 34-year-old male patient, who was a contact lens wearer, presented with a unilateral corneal ulcer. A corneal scraping was performed to conduct a microbiological investigation. Disease progress was favorable after a 5-week topical treatment, which ...
The paper presents the first case of contact lens-associated keratitis caused by the protozoon Acanthamoeba sp. identified in Slovenia so far. The identification of Acanthamoeba as a cause of keratitis in a soft contact lens wearer alerted us to the fact that this health issue should be given ...
Future vision: Story of a contact‐lens wearerdoi:10.1080/09505438909526240Christopher KneeLecturer in sociologyScience as Culture
Clinical Optometry Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH Wearer Experience and Eye Care Professional Acceptance with a 1 Day Multifocal Contact Lens Marcella McParland 1, Karen Walsh 1, Daniel Comoroda2, Anna Sulley3 1Coopervision, ...
Acanthamoeba as a 'transient' in the corneal scrape of a poorly compliant soft contact lens wearer with peripheral keratitis. Acanthamoeba as a “transient” in the corneal scrape of a poorly compliant soft contact lens wearer with peripheral keratitis. Eye 11 937-939. [ Pub... W Newman,J ...
A better myopia control effect with increased wearing time was also found in a study using defocus incorporated soft contact lenses.13 However, no correlation between lens wearing time and myopia control efficacy was found in the study using DIMS spectacle lenses.26 In the DIMS study, participants...
of patients Contact lens wearer Anophthalmic socket Thyroid eye disease Previous trabeculectomy Duane's syndrome Myasthenia gravis Limbal stell cell failure Granulomatosis with polyangiitis Lid varix Periocular lymphangioma Floppy eyelid syndrome 9 9 5 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 complication and 15 eyes (5%)...
One patient was a soft contact lens wearer. Disease entry criteria were satisfied unilaterally in three patients, hence 29 eyes were studied. The study population comprised 14 female and 2 male patients. Mean ± SD age was 54.4 ± 15.0 years. Median age was 51.5 years (range 22–83). Eye...