Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines are developed by the Academy's H. Dunbar Hoskins
Jr., MD Center for Quality Eye Care without any external financial support. Authors and …

Lack of or inadequate hand washing is a risk factor in the development of contact lens
related microbial keratitis and corneal inflammatory events. In the public health domain there …

Healthy Contact Lens Behaviors Communicated by Eye Care Providers and Recalled by
Patients — United States, 2018 | MMWR Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page …

Purpose: To report the microbiological and clinical profiles, and outcomes of patients with
microbial keratitis who had ocular surface disease (OSD) at the Sydney Eye Hospital …

Purpose Exploratory analysis to assess the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNPs) in the interleukin (IL) 10 and IL-17 genes with severity of contact lens keratitis …

Background: Microbial keratitis is a medical emergency. Although an uncommon presenting
condition to general practitioners, it is potentially vision-threatening. Prompt recognition …

More than 140 million people worldwide wear contact lenses. 1 Contact lens wearers are
more prone to ocular surface problems, particularly those who use extended wear contact …

Background: Corneal ulcer is an inflammatory or more serious condition of the cornea
involving a disorder of the epithelial layer with involvement of the corneal stroma. It is a …

People wear contact lenses (CL) not only to correct the refractive errors of the eye, but also
for cosmetic reasons. However, people who wear CL have little or no knowledge of the rules …

The antibacterial action of Ag-doped Al 2 O 3 nanolayers, deposited by RF reactive
magnetron sputtering on hard contact lenses, was established. Synthesis of Ag/Al 2 O 3 …