The Effects of Short-Term Lens Wear and Eye Rubbing on the Corneal Epithelium
| Autor: | Gregory Kalogeropoulos, Isabelle Jalbert, Shaun Chang, Thomas Bolton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male Effects of long-term contact lens wear on the cornea medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Materials science Adolescent genetic structures Contact Lenses In vivo confocal microscopy Confocal Pilot Projects Eye Young Adult Basal (phylogenetics) Ophthalmology medicine Humans Corneal epithelium Massage Analysis of Variance Cross-Over Studies Microscopy Confocal Eye rubbing integumentary system Epithelium Corneal Contact Lenses Hydrophilic Rubbing medicine.anatomical_structure Lens (anatomy) Female sense organs |
| Zdroj: | Eye & Contact Lens: Science & Clinical Practice. 35:255-259 |
| ISSN: | 1542-2321 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/icl.0b013e3181b4ec39 |
| Popis: | Objectives To measure the effects of short-term high oxygen-transmissible (Dk) soft and rigid contact lens wear and eye rubbing on basal epithelial appearance and epithelial thickness. Methods Ten subjects were enrolled in a randomized crossover study. The subjects' left eye was used as a control, and the right eye either wore a high Dk soft lens, high Dk parallel fitted rigid gas-permeable lens, or was rubbed on 3 separate days. Epithelial basal cell regularity and central and peripheral epithelial thickness were assessed before and after 6-hr soft or rigid lens wear or 10-min rubbing using in vivo confocal microscopy and modified optical pachometry. Results Basal cell regularity was unaffected by short-term lens wear or eye rubbing (Friedman Test, P=0.11 and 0.37 in test and control eyes, respectively). The peripheral epithelium was thicker than the central epithelium (repeated-measures analysis of variance, P=0.03) but remained unaffected by short-term lens wear or eye rubbing (repeated-measures analysis of variance, P>0.05, power Conclusions Corneal epithelial thickness and basal cell morphology were not affected by short-term lens wear or eye rubbing in this pilot study. |
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