Keratoconus following contact lens wear. 1978

L P Steahly

While it can be stated that cases such as ours are examples of simultaneous development of keratoconus are otherwise predisposed individual rather than direct results of contact lens wear, it is still a disturbing development. Although inheritance patterns are vague if existent in keratoconus patients, it might fall on the ophthalmologist to prove that lens wear was not associated with the problem in a legal forum. With increasing attention to medicolegal problems, the burden of careful and reasonably close follow-up cannot be ignored in contact lens patients.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007640 Keratoconus A noninflammatory, usually bilateral protrusion and thinning of the CORNEA, the apex being displaced downward and nasally. It occurs most commonly in females at about puberty. Two closely related noninflammatory corneal ectasias are pellucid marginal degeneration and keratoglobus. Keratoglobus,Pellucid Marginal Corneal Degeneration,Pellucid Marginal Degeneration,Degeneration, Pellucid Marginal,Marginal Degeneration, Pellucid,Pellucid Marginal Degenerations
D008297 Male Males
D008887 Military Medicine The practice of medicine as applied to special circumstances associated with military operations. Medicine, Military
D003261 Contact Lenses Lenses designed to be worn on the front surface of the eyeball. (UMDNS, 1999) Lenses, Contact,Contact Lens,Lens, Contact
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D013997 Time Factors Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations. Time Series,Factor, Time,Time Factor

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