Extended wear soft contact lenses in the correction of aphakia.
This paper reports the study over a 2-year period of forty patients with uniocular aphakia fitted with spherical extended wear hydrophilic lenses: Sauflon 85 per cent and Duragel 72 per cent. The patients' ages ranged from 17 to 87 years (mean 52). They were unable to handle a daily wear soft lens or tolerate a hard lens. The success rate was 85 per cent.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001036:Aphakia, Postcataract / Q000628:therapy*; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic / Q000009:adverse effects; D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014792:Visual Acuity