Detection and measurement of corneal alterations due to conventional contact lens wear.
Corneal changes, especially edema, are discussed, with the purpose of offering a selection of many tests intended to give the practitioner indications of the response of the eye to contact lens wear. Some old, some current, and some futuristic techniques, including a few now operative but largely experimental, are mentioned, as is a concluding opinion of the minimum clinical routine providing the "best" information of the edema state.
D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003315:Cornea / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D004487:Edema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods