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A multi-parameter grading system for optimal fitting of scleral contact lenses [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2022
Background: While scleral lens practise has improved over the years due to factors such as availability of lenses with better materials and designs as well as experience of practitioners, a lack of objectivity appears to remain in terms of assessment of ...
Simmy Chaudhary   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Legendrian rational unknots in lens spaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We classify Legendrian rational unknots with tight complements in the lens spaces L(p,1) up to coarse equivalence. As an example of the general case, this classification is also worked out for L(5,2).
Geiges, Hansjörg, Onaran, Sinem
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A multi-parameter grading system for optimal fitting of scleral contact lenses [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2022
Background: While scleral lens practise has improved over the years due to factors such as availability of lenses with better materials and designs as well as experience of practitioners, a lack of objectivity appears to remain in terms of assessment of ...
Simmy Chaudhary   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Serratamolide is a hemolytic factor produced by Serratia marcescens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Serratia marcescens is a common contaminant of contact lens cases and lenses. Hemolytic factors of S. marcescens contribute to the virulence of this opportunistic bacterial pathogen.
BA Holden   +61 more
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Contact Lens Complications [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Ophthalmology, 2000
Contact Lens Complications . By Nathan Efron. Pp 193 plus CD-Rom; £55. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999. ISBN 0-7506-0582-0. This book is of very attractive design. The generous format, matt paper, and uncrowded layout immediately invite attention. It has copious illustrations of generally excellent quality. Detail in a few of the photographs is a
openaire   +2 more sources

A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the eye. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
ObjectiveTo determine whether, as most modern historians have written, ancient Greco-Roman authors believed the crystalline lens is positioned in the center of the eye.BackgroundHistorians have written that statements about cataract couching by Celsus ...
Hadi, Tamer M   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Current applications and efficacy of scleral contact lenses — a retrospective study

open access: yesJournal of Optometry, 2010
Purpose: To evaluate the indications and efficacy of high gas permeable scleral contact lenses (GP-SCL). Methods: A total database of 97 consecutive patients (140 eyes) fitted with GP-SCL between January 2003 and December 2008, was retrospectively ...
Boris Severinsky, Michel Millodot
doaj   +1 more source

Dehn surgery, rational open books and knot Floer homology

open access: yes, 2012
By recent results of Baker--Etnyre--Van Horn-Morris, a rational open book decomposition defines a compatible contact structure. We show that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant of such a contact structure can be computed in terms of the knot Floer ...
Hedden, Matthew, Plamenevskaya, Olga
core   +1 more source

Effect of lens diameter on lens performance and initial comfort of two types of GP lenses for keratoconus: a pilot study

open access: yesJournal of Optometry, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the effect of varying lens diameter of two types of keratoconic lenses on lens performance and initial comfort with participants with either centered or oval cones.
Luigina Sorbara, Katrin Mueller
doaj   +1 more source

Retrospective Chart Review on Real-World Use of Latanoprostene Bunod 0.024% in Treatment-Naïve Patients with Open-Angle Glaucoma

open access: yesOphthalmology and Therapy, 2020
Introduction The objective of this study was to evaluate real-world effectiveness of latanoprostene bunod (LBN) ophthalmic solution 0.024% in treatment-naïve patients newly diagnosed with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) or ocular hypertension.
Constance O. Okeke   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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