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3. Ocular surface health with contact lens wear
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3. Ocular surface health with contact lens wear

Abstract

Eye care practitioners (ECPs) would tend to agree that wearing contact lenses increases the risk for infection, but millions of patients are still fitted with lenses every year because ECPs feel that the risk is manageable and that their patients' eye health can be protected. The Fusarium and Acanthamoeba keratitis outbreaks of years past were a wake-up call to manufacturers, ECPs, and regulatory agencies that risk cannot be managed without …

Authors

Shovlin JP; Argüeso P; Carnt N; Chalmers RL; Efron N; Fleiszig SMJ; Nichols JJ; Polse KA; Stapleton F; Wiley L

Journal

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, Vol. 36, , pp. s14–s21

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

January 2013

DOI

10.1016/s1367-0484(13)60005-3

ISSN

1367-0484