title: Osmotic edema associated with contact lens adaptation.
abstract: When associated with the new contact lens patient, corneal edema may stem from quite different physiological bases, e.g. relative anoxia or osmotic imbalance. A quantitative overview of the osmotic origins of epithelial edema is given here.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D013666:Tears / Q000378:metabolism