J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1978 Mar;19(1):1-5.

Clinical Observation on Soft Contact Lenses

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  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Clinical observations were carried out in total 1,626 cases wearing fOft contact lenses made by International Contact Lens Lab. Seoul, Korea. The results of observation on 834 patients (1,626 eyes) fitted with the Hydrophilic Soft Contact Lenses for correction of refractive errors covering the period from November 1975 to October 1976 are as follows: 1) Good results are obtained fer myopia, hyperopia and aphakia. But corneal astigmatism exceeding +/-1.75 diopters was corrected unsatisfactorily. 2) 8.2% of 133 eyes among the total 1,626 eyes fitted with soft contact lenses were discontinued weanng. 3) Physical properties of ICL polymer 1936 are obtained good results when we compared with another company made.


MeSH Terms

Aphakia
Astigmatism
Contact Lenses
Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic*
Humans
Hyperopia
Korea
Myopia
Polymers
Refractive Errors
Seoul
Polymers
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