Contact Lenses

03/01/2013 - "The results indicate that the significant improvement in vision-related quality of life and acceptability with OK contact lenses is an incentive to engage in its use for the control of myopia in children."
05/01/2002 - "Consistent with previous work, better unaided vision, combined with the inconvenience of or intolerance to spectacles or contact lenses, provided the main incentives to have LASIK for myopia, while improved cosmesis was relatively unimportant (29.1%). "
10/01/2014 - "The effects are smaller than using single-vision contact lenses that impose full-field defocus, but support the use of bifocal or multifocal contact lenses as an effective treatment for myopia control."
01/01/1990 - "Whether contact lenses are effective in the control of myopia is still uncertain. "
06/01/2001 - "Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy for myopia is now an established safe and effective alternative to contact lenses and glasses, and should be part of the ophthalmologist's standard armamentarium for treating this condition. "

12/01/2006 - "The modified ALTK procedure effectively treated a patient with moderate keratoconus with a best-corrected visual acuity of 20/80, despite rigid gas-permeable contact lenses. "
01/01/2002 - "Rigid gas permeable contact lenses remain the mainstay treatment for advanced keratoconus, with various designs enabling a large proportion of patients to attain improved visual acuity."
03/01/2006 - "Intacs, with the help of secondary refractive procedures or contact lenses, may still be considered as effective in postponing penetrating keratoplasty, even in patients with advanced keratoconus."
02/01/2014 - "To determine whether pancorneal rigid gas-permeable toric edge contact lenses (pancorneal RGP-CL) fitting could be improved by using non-central corneal shape predictors, and to compare these parameters with respect to age and gender in patients with keratoconus. "
08/01/2013 - "Contact lenses are required for the visual improvement in patients with keratoconus. "

01/01/2000 - "The purpose of this study was to measure improvement in best corrected visual acuity with rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses compared to best corrected spectacle visual acuity for patients with irregular astigmatism. "
07/01/1996 - "In most cases, contact lenses gave good visual acuity and, in cases of mild irregular astigmatism, a significant improvement over spectacle BCVA. "
03/01/2015 - "RGP contact lenses provide a significant improvement in VA compared to VA reached with spectacles in patients with high corneal astigmatism. "
01/01/2000 - "RGP contact lenses can provide a significant improvement in visual acuity compared to spectacle correction for patients with irregular astigmatism."
09/01/1997 - "Definition of successful surgery is even broader when a significant reduction of astigmatism that usually allows the use of spectacles or contact lenses is considered. "

11/01/2013 - "To evaluate the efficacy of high-plus contact lenses as a form of optical penalization in children with unilateral aphakia. "
03/01/1990 - "Contact lenses are a versatile, safe, successful, and cost effective treatment for aphakia in infancy against which, before their widespread introduction for primary optical correction of infant aphakia, other methods of aphakic treatment need to be compared."
04/29/1977 - "The correction of unilateral and bilateral aphakia with contact lenses has given good results. "
04/01/1983 - "Choyce Mark IX lenses were implanted in 72 patients between 71 and 86 years of age suffering from unilateral aphakia, who could not be helped with contact lenses; 38 of the patients were observed for a period of more than 16 months. "
07/01/1993 - "Daily wear contact lenses were found to be safe and effective in the treatment of infantile surgical aphakia. "

07/01/1999 - "Based on the results of the trial PRK appears to be an effective and safe method for correction of high myopic anisometropia in intolerance of contact lenses or complete correction by glasses. "
01/01/2009 - "The current study aims to evaluate both safety and efficacy of Verisyse() (AMO, Irvine, CA) phakic anterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) in the reduction of clinically significant (>-8 D) myopic anisometropia in children who are noncompliant to traditional medical treatment including spectacle correction or contact lenses. "
09/01/2002 - "In our study contact lenses improved visual acuity in myopic anisometropia of up to 9 dioptres."
05/01/2014 - "The study comprised consecutive patients who were unable to tolerate spectacles or contact lenses for the correction of anisometropia after PKP and had corneal wavefront-guided custom LASIK. "
09/01/2001 - "Those who need it most, namely infants and children with high anisometropia who cannot tolerate contact lenses or spectacles, are the least cooperative, the most difficult to treat postoperatively, and the least able to afford expensive treatments not covered by insurance, are therefore the least likely to be offered the procedure, or to have a study designed to evaluate their specific needs and concerns. "