Vascular response to extended wear of hydrogel lenses with high and low oxygen permeability

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 147-151

  Dumbleton, Kathryn A ^a   Chalmers, Robin L ^b   Richter, Doris B ^a   Fonn, Desmond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CIBA Vision Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended wear; Hydrogel contact lenses; Hyperemia; Neovascularization; Oxygen permeability

Indexed keywords

HYDROGELS; OXYGEN;

NEOVASCULARIZATION;

LENSES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHRONOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; EXTENDED WEAR CONTACT LENS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0035053132     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200103000-00006     Document Type: Article

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