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Principles of contact lens fitting in keratoconus
1 December 2015
| Inderpaul S Sian, Nabil Habib (Prof)
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Cataract and Refractive
Keratoconus is an ectatic condition of the cornea characterised by progressive conical distortion with irregular astigmatism, myopia and apical protrusion. Most cases progress slowly resulting in varying degrees of myopic astigmatism. Management of keratoconus includes spectacles, soft contact lenses, a...
Survey of parental experience of contact lens support
1 June 2022
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Extended role, aphakia, contact lenses, teaching parents
In this study, the service under evaluation is for paediatric aphakia patients. Soft contact lenses (CLs) are inserted at the time of surgery and remain in-situ for the immediate postoperative period. The aim is for families to undertake daily CLs...
Non-contact-lens-associated acanthamoeba keratitis
1 October 2015
| Jaya Myneni
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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Acanthamoeba keratitis, microbial keratitis, microscopy, non-contact-lens, time of presentation
This retrospective study was done to study the clinical presentation and microbiological results of non-contact-lens-related acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). One hundred and ninety-four patients with microbiological / histopathological diagnosis of AK over four years were included. All patients had corneal scrapings...
Prismatic contact lens correction vs prismatic glasses
29 March 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The aim of this study was to verify if diplopia could be corrected by applying soft directional prism contact lenses, to compare effectiveness of diplopia correction, comfort and quality of vision with these contact lenses compared to prism glasses. This...
Bandage contact lens cultures after corneal collagen cross-linking
1 August 2016
| Saruban Pasu
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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Bacterial contamination, contact lens, corneal collagen cross-linking, keratoconus, photorefractive keratotomy
Corneal collagen cross-linking (CCL) is a treatment modality that has been shown to stop the progression of keratoconus. There have also been reports that CCL acts as an antimicrobiologic agent in treating resistant microbial keratitis. This study aimed to investigate...
Ocular lubrication versus bandage contact lens in recurrent erosion syndrome (RES)
1 December 2013
| Sharmina Khan
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
Twenty-nine patients (eight traumatic, five epithelial basement membrane dystrophy, two idiopathic) were randomised using SPSS to either ocular lubricants or bandage contact lenses (BCLs). Only patients previously treated with ocular lubricants were included. Patients with previous surgery, laser treatment, dry...
Oral omega-3 fatty acid treatment for dry eye in contact lens wearers
1 June 2015
| Sharmina Khan
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This study evaluates the effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation of dry eye symptoms, tear film tests, and conjunctival impression cytology in patients with contact lens wear-associated dry eye. In this randomised double-blind, multi-centred trial, contact lens wearers (n=...
Squamous metaplasia of conjunctival epithelial cells with soft contact lens wear versus non-lens wearers
Conjunctiva is composed of non-squamous epithelial cells interspersed with goblet cells, which is a secretory epithelium. Squamous metaplasia is a transformation to non-secretory epithelium, ‘keratinised’ and enlargement of the conjunctival non-goblet cells and relatively shrunken nuclei are seen on impression...Bilateral eye pain after contact lens wear: an inadvertent case of chemical eye injury
1 December 2022
| Derek K-H Ho, Vinod Kumar
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Ophthalmology
Introduction There are around 4.1 million contact lens wearers in the UK [1]. While the vast majority of them do not experience any complications, over the past years there have been cases of acanthamoeba keratitis and multiple retained contact lenses...