A 6-month follow-up of successful refits from daily disposable soft contact lenses to continuous wear of high-Dk silicone-hydrogel lenses

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-141

  Aakre, Bente Monica ^a   Ystenaes, Ann E ^a   Doughty, Michael J ^b   Austrheim, Øyvind ^a   Westerfjell, Björn ^a   Lie, Monica T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact lens; Continuous wear; Daily disposable; Silicone hydrogel

Indexed keywords

SILICONE; SILICONE GEL;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EYELID; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; HYPEREMIA; OPTOMETRY; PAPILLARY CONJUNCTIVITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; SOFT CONTACT LENS; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; ADULT; CORNEA; DEHYDRATION; EVALUATION; EXTENDED WEAR CONTACT LENS; FEMALE; HYDROPHILIC CONTACT LENS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ADULT; CONTACT LENSES, EXTENDED-WEAR; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; CORNEA; DEHYDRATION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SILICONE GELS; XEROPHTHALMIA;

EID: 3142710151     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2004.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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