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Are eye‐care practitioners fitting scleral contact lenses?

Australasian journal of optometry, The, 2020
To determine the extent of scleral lens fitting worldwide and to characterise the associated patient demographics.Survey forms were sent to contact lens fitters around the world, every year for 20 consecutive years (2000 to 2019). Practitioners were asked to record data relating to the first 10 contact lens fits or refits performed after receiving the ...
Craig A Woods   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Acanthamoeba keratitis in patients wearing scleral contact lenses

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 2018
To report a series of cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in scleral lens wearers with keratoconus to determine whether this type of contact lens presents a greater risk for development of infection.This study reports three patients who wore scleral contact lenses to correct keratoconus and developed AK.
Rubens Belfort, Denise de Freitas
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Therapeutic and Ocular Surface Indications for Scleral Contact Lenses

Ocular Surface, 2007
ABSTRACT Contrary to popular perception, the large size and scleral bearing surface of scleral contact lenses (ScCLs) can be beneficial in the management of certain ocular surface disorders. They can provide retention of a precorneal tear reservoir for corneal hydration with total protection from the external environment and from the lid margins and ...
Ken, Pullum, Roger, Buckley
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Scleral contact lenses in the management of pellucid marginal degeneration

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 2016
To assess visual improvement with scleral lenses (PROSE, prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem, Boston Foundation for Sightight, USA) in patients with Pellucid marginal degeneration (PMD).This is a single-center, retrospective case-series involving patients with clinical PMD who underwent scleral lens-PROSE trial for improvement of ...
Srikanth Dumpati   +2 more
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Scleral Contact Lenses

Cornea, 2005
The purpose of this study was to describe the current indications for scleral contact lens (ScCL) management at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.A database of 1003 patients (1560 eyes) seen between September 1999 and May 2003, either assessed for an ScCL trial or to follow up previously issued lenses, was analyzed.The major contact lens indication ...
Kenneth W, Pullum   +2 more
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Scleral Contact Lenses

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1963
The Need for Scleral Lenses I would not presume to talk about corneal contact lenses here in America. You have a vast experience of their use and are well aware of their limitations as applied to what may be called "cosmetic" cases. By this I mean such patients as can see adequately with spectacles but prefer not to wear them.
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Medical Applications of Scleral Contact Lenses

Cornea, 1995
The indications and outcome of the wear of gas-permeable (GP) scleral contact lenses in 118 eyes of 85 patients attending a Scleral Contact Lens Clinic during a 5-year period from July 1988 to June 1993 were analysed. Ninety-nine eyes (83.9%) were originally fitted with PMMA lenses and were subsequently changed to GP lenses, whereas 19 (16.1%) were ...
D T, Tan, K W, Pullum, R J, Buckley
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SCLERAL CONTACT LENSES

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1964
To the Editor: —It is evident from Dr. Arthur Keeney's guest editorial (Arch Ophthal70:739, 1963) that he has not fully appreciated the outstanding results Frederick Ridley is obtaining in the treatment of corneal pathology with scleral contact lenses.
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Scleral contact lenses for the management of complicated ptosis

Orbit, 2017
To present the management of three patients suffering from ptosis of various etiologies, with scleral contact lenses.Three patients (five eyes) with ptosis resulting from levator dehiscence due to long-term rigid gas permeable contact lens wear for keratoconus, phthisis bulbi, and myopathy due to Kearns-Sayre syndrome were identified during a 2-year ...
Konstantinos, Katsoulos   +2 more
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