The effect of extended-wear aphakic hydrophilic contact lenses after penetrating keratoplasty.
I fitted nine aphakic patients who had undergone penetrating keratoplasty with extended-wear hydrophilic contact lenses (55% to 80% water content). All patients had edematous host corneas. Eight of nine developed vascularization of the graft after two to 30 weeks of contact lens wear. One patient developed a presumed Candida keratitis. The development of vascularization of the graft suggests that patients with grafted corneas are at special risk with extended-wear hydrophilic contact lenses.
D000368:Aged; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000209:etiology; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D004487:Edema / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007634:Keratitis / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous