Keratoconus following contact lens wear.
While it can be stated that cases such as ours are examples of simultaneous development of keratoconus are otherwise predisposed individual rather than direct results of contact lens wear, it is still a disturbing development. Although inheritance patterns are vague if existent in keratoconus patients, it might fall on the ophthalmologist to prove that lens wear was not associated with the problem in a legal forum. With increasing attention to medicolegal problems, the burden of careful and reasonably close follow-up cannot be ignored in contact lens patients.
D000328:Adult; D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007640:Keratoconus / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine; D013997:Time Factors