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Contact lens-associated microbial keratitis
... Purpose: Contact lens-associated microbial keratitis is a severe condition with sight-threatening potential and increasing ...with contact lens-associated microbial ...with contact ...
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Contact lens use with intraestromal hemorrhage secondary to corneal neovascularization
... The lens movement and the oxygenated tears circulation behind the lens are important mechanisms that provide oxygen to the ...A contact lens can change the tears normal circulation, causing ...
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Microbiota and Particulate Matter Assessment in Portuguese Optical Shops Providing Contact Lens Services
... The prevalence of fungal isolates are impossible to count with fast growing rates, such as Chrysonilia sitophila, Phoma sp., and Rhizopus sp., being among other drawbacks from classical-culture methods already reported ...
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Biomaterial latex manufactured occlusion contact lens : proposal for amblyopia treatment
... Abstract— Amblyopia is an ophthalmic disorder that consists in low visual acuity in an eye that was not developed adequately during childhood, commonly known by lazy eye. The products presently used for treatment of ...
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Visual performance of scleral lenses and their impact on quality of life in patients with irregular corneas
... make contact on the relatively less sensitive surface of the sclera, are better tolerated and yield supe- rior results for optical corrections in patients with corneal ...with contact lens ...
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Effect of contact lenses on ocular biometric measurements based on swept-source optical coherence tomography
... soft contact lenses [a low (38%) and high (58%) water-content polymer) at the same power ...soft contact lens increased the AL in a repeatable man- ner and was reliably detected by ...ned ...
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Acanthamoeba and contact lenses
... because contact with humans happens daily, the risk of exposure to this infection is very ...in contact lens wearers although it’s also a reality in non-wearers, mostly connected with corneal ...
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Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. vol.77 número2
... wed no significant differences between both systems at this ver gence (p=0.08). When negative lenses were introduced from a vergence of 0 D, a continuous deterioration was observed with both techniques at all steps. The ...
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Microbial keratitis in the elderly: a 32-year review
... Methods: A retrospective review of all patients aged 60 years and over with a presumptive diagnosis of infectious keratitis who had material collected for microbiological analysis, between the years 1975 and 2007 ...
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Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. vol.63 número3
... Results: Mean hypotony duration was 7.4 months (standard devia- tion (SD) ± 6.7 months, range 2 to 23 months). Associated findings included choroidal detachment (2 eyes) and maculopathy (5 eyes). All patients who ...
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Rev. bras.oftalmol. vol.76 número4
... In conclusion, we reported an unusual case of bilateral and simultaneous Acremonium keratitis related to intermittent and alternating eye soft contact lens use, which had a delayed diagnostic, amphotericin ...
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Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. vol.69 número3
... 17. Kompella VB, Aasuri MK, Rao GN. Management of pellucid marginal corneal degeneration with rigid gas permeable contact lens. CLAO J. 2002;20(4): 140-5. 18. Tzelikis PF, Komatsu FTO, Laibson PR, Cohen EJ, ...
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Perfil dos alunos usuários de lentes de contato do curso de Medicina da Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP - Botucatu.
... use contact lenses, and among them 94.8% use soft contact lenses and 98% have negative ...their contact lens ...the contact lenses from optician stores or at pharmacies and ...their ...
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Influence of lens care solutions on transmittance and reflectance of contact lenses
... of contact lens (CL) wearers ...and lens care systems (LCSs) ...the lens material and the protective effect can be correleted with the absorption and stability of the ultraviolet (UV) filter ...
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Clinics vol.66 número8
... Samples from conjunctival swabbing and corneal scraping, the contact lens, the cleaning solution, and the case were all submitted for microbiological analysis. Gram staining revealed gram-negative ...
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Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. vol.80 número1
... Results: Lens use was discontinued in four eyes, and microbial keratitis developed in one eye during ...initial contact lens fitting was ...mean contact lens-corrected visual acuity ...
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Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. vol.75 número3
... SN6AD3 IOL (Alcon Inc., Fort Worth, Texas). Inclusion criteria were age bet ween 45 and 70 years and the motivation to reduce the dependency of any form of spectacle or contact lens correction for distance ...
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J. Appl. Oral Sci. vol.15 número1
... n addition to an initial socket discomfort, ocular prosthesis (OP) installation may allow the adherence of fungi and/or bacteria due to the superficial characteristics of the prosthesis’ material, use of inadequate ...
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Avaliação da performance clínica de lentes de contacto descartáveis diárias: um estudo piloto
... The effects of 2 week senofilcon-A silicone hydrogel contact lens daily wear on tear functions and ocular surface health status.. Contact lens anterior eye 2011;34(2):77-82..[r] ...
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Amino Acid Interaction Network Prediction Using Multi-Objective Optimization
... A contact map matrix is an N X N, 0 - 1 matrix, whose element (i, j) is 1 if there is a contact between amino acids i and j and 0 ...the contact between two amino ...the contact map can ...
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