Clinical characterization of spherical post-lens debris associated with lotrafilcon high-DK silicone lenses

CLAO Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 186-192

  Dumbleton, K ^a   Jones, L ^a   Chalmers, R ^a   Williams Lyn, D ^a   Fonn, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT; MUCIN;

ARTICLE; CORNEA CURVATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTENDED WEAR CONTACT LENS; HUMAN; HYDROPHILIC CONTACT LENS; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

CONTACT LENSES, EXTENDED-WEAR; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MUCINS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SILICONE ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0033744673     PISSN: 07338902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Oxygen permeability of a new type of high Dk soft contact lens material
2. Comparison of the physiological response to extended wear of an experimental high Dk soft lens versus a 38% HEMA lens
3. High oxygentransmissibility soft contact lenses do not induce limbal hyperaemia
4. A comparison of the vascular response to extended wear of conventional lower Dk and experimental high Dk hydrogel contact lenses
5. Recovery from hyperemia after overnight wear of hydrogel lenses
6. On the relationship between soft contact lens oxygen transmissibility and induced limbal hyperaemia
7. Changes in myopic refractive error with nine months extended wear of hydrogel lenses with high and low oxygen permeability
8. High Dk silicone hydrogels do not induce an epithelial microcyst response
9. Sympathetic swelling response of the control eye to soft lenses in the other eye
10. Lens performance and patient acceptance of high Dk silicone hydrogel lenses worn on a 30 night schedule and low Dk lenses worn on a 6 night EW schedule
11. The relationship between contact lens oxygen permeability and binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to human corneal epithelial cells after overnight and extended wear
12. Microbial keratitis with contact lens wear: Incidence with 6 night extended wear versus 30 night continuous wear
13. Extended wear in perspective
14. Re-thinking extended contact lens wear
15. Peripheral corneal staining accompanying contact lens wear
16. Corneal staining relating to contact lens wear
17. A hypothesis for the aetiology of soft contact lensinduced superior arcuate keratopathy
18. Tear film examination of the contact lens patient
19. Problem of between-eye correlation for statistical hypothesis testing: Rabbit corneal thickness
20. People and eyes: Statistical approaches in ophthalmology
21. Clinical implications of extended wear research
22. Proposed hypothesis for corneal infiltrates, microabrasions, and red eye associated with extended wear
23. Pre-corneal deposits during soft contact lens wear
24. Tear microspheres (TMSS) with high Dk lenses
25. Transient corneal surface 'microdeposits' and associated epithelial surface pits occurring with gel contact lens extended wear
26. Post-lens tear debris during extended wear of hydrogels
27. Epithelial inclusions in association with mucin ball development in high Dk hydrogel lenses: Description and case reports
28. Cystic formations in the corneal epithelium during extended wear of contact lenses
29. The significance of the microcyst response: A review
30. A case of dimple veiling/staining
31. Dimple-veil staining
32. Lens deposits with a high Dk hydrophilic soft lens
33. Lens adherence and postlens tear film changes in closedeye wear of hydrogel lenses
34. Diurnal tear cycle: Evidence for a nocturnal inflammatory constitutive tear fluid
35. Silicone-hydrogels - What are they and how should they be used in everyday practice?
36. A review of squeeze films
37. Immunological and electrophoretic studies of human tear proteins
38. Human tears: Electrophoretic characteristics of specific proteins
39. The casual level of meibomian lipids in humans
40. Gel electrophoresis of human tears reveals various forms of tear lactoferrin
41. Importance of the lipid layer in human tear film stability and evaporation
42. Preocular tear film characteristics of nonwearers and soft contact lens wearers
43. Individual variations in human meibomian lipid composition
44. Tear lipid composition of contact lens wearers
45. Adsorption and removal of protein bound to hydrogel contact lenses
46. Initial in vivo tear protein deposition on individual hydrogel contact lenses
47. Protein deposits on individual hydrophilic contact lenses: Effects of water and ionicity
48. Specificity and biological activity of the protein deposited on the hydrogel surface
49. Quantitative analysis of protein deposits on hydrophilic soft contact lenses: I. Comparison to visual methods of analysis. II. Deposit variation among FDA lens material groups
50. Quantification of total protein deposits on contact lenses by means of amino acid analysis