Keratoconus: A disease that can be treated with soft lenses.
10 patients with keratoconus and very reduced vision were treated with soft contact lenses with good results both in visual acuity and comfort Some patients were able to read 1.0 and demonstrated that soft lenses can give as good visual acuity as hard lenses, a fact quite contrary to the generally established opinion in the contact-lens world. Observation time 9 months.
D000328:Adult; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007640:Keratoconus / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014792:Visual Acuity