Soft contact lens wear in Hong Kong-Chinese: Predicting success

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 480-486

  Chui, Wan Sang ^a   Cho, Pauline ^a   Brown, Brian ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOLSULFONPHTHALEIN;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT CONTACT LENS; TEAR FILM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEARS;

EID: 0033744082     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(99)00101-5     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. The borderline dry-eye patient and contact lens wear
2. Inter- and intra-individual variability of non-invasive tear break-up time in Hong Kong Chinese
3. The cotton thread test: A brief review and a clinical study of its reliability on Hong Kong-Chinese
4. Reliability of a portable non-invasive tear break-up time test on Hong Kong-Chinese
5. The distribution of the invasive and non-invasive tear break-up time of Hong Kong-Chinese
6. The effect of benoxinate on the tear stability of Hong Kong-Chinese
7. The relationship between invasive and noninvasive tear break-up time
8. A pilot study of the comparative performance of two cotton thread tests for tear volume
9. Schirmer Test II. A clinical study of its repeatability
10. The cotton thread test on Chinese eyes: Effect of age and gender
11. Effect of contact lens wear on the tears of Hong Kong-Chinese
12. Effect of reading on non-invasive tear break-up time and inter-blink interval
13. Silicone contact lens wear. III. Physiology of poor tolerance
14. Evaluation of the Schirmer tear test
15. The role of tears in contact lens performance and its measurement
16. A new method for measuring tears
17. Human tear film pre-rupture phase time (TP-RPT) - A non-invasive technique for evaluating the pre-corneal tear film using a novel keratometer mire
18. Tear film physiology and contact lens wear. II. Contact lens-tear film interaction
19. Tear physiology and dry eyes
20. Evaluation of a self-prepared cotton thread test (SP-CTT) and the phenol red thread (PRT) test
21. Schirmer test after topical anesthesia and the tear meniscus height in normal eyes
22. Report of the National Eye Institute/Industry Workshop on the clinical trials in dry eyes
23. Repeatability of the phenol-red thread and tear thinning time tests for tear film function
24. Reliability of the wetting value of tears
25. Breaking up is hard to do?
26. Contact lens-related tear deficiency
27. A non-invasive instrument for clinical assessment of the pre-corneal tear film stability
28. Non-invasive tear film break-up time: Sensitivity and specificity
29. Effect of fluorescein on the tear film break up time and tear thinning time
30. Evaluation of the Schirmer tear test
31. Mechanism of tear film rupture and its implications for contact lens tolerance
32. Anomalies of the tears and the preocular tear film
33. Non-invasive assessment of tear film break-up time in a group of normal subjects-implications for contact lens wear
34. Basic contact lens practice. Part four. Assessment of the tear film
35. Precorneal fluid and contact lenses