Combined atropine with orthokeratology in childhood myopia control (AOK) – A randomized controlled trial
Paul Gifford discusses work presented at ARVO 2019 on combining atropine with orthokeratology for myopia control. Continue reading
Issues
Practitioner reference: Getting started with Orthokeratology
The clinical insight in this issue is a practitoner reference and infographic “Getting started with orthokeratology”, stepping you through obtaining good corneal topography images, how to assess likelihood of achieving full refraction from OK, and decision making for correcting astigmatism. Continue reading
Understanding Clinical and Contact Lens Related Risk Factors for Corneal Inflammatory Events
Loretta Szczotka-Flynn has written a comprehensive editorial, including a review of the associations between mucin ball formation and CIEs Continue reading
Epidemiology of contact lens-induced infiltrates: an updated review
Robin Chalmers not only summarises key points from Kelsey Steele’s recent review paper on the epidemiology of CIEs, but also provides several helpful pieces of advice for practitioners Continue reading
Contact Lens-induced Corneal Infiltrative Events during Extended Melimine Antimicrobial Contact Lens (MACL) wear Clinical Trial
Future work in this field is highlighted with Debarun Dutta’s conference abstract which examines the effect of antimicrobial contact lenses on the incidence of CIEs in extended wear Continue reading
Practitioner reference: Corneal Infiltrative Events, the facts, figures and how to reduce the risks
With so many figures surrounding incidence and risk factors for CIEs it can be difficult to remember the key points. The practitioner reference guide brings all of these together in one simple reference tool to remind you of how common … Continue reading
Staining Wars
Eric Papas has written a fascinating editorial describing how our appreciation of SICS has changed over time, concluding with some present day evidence Continue reading
Cellular fluorescein hyperfluorescence is dynamin-dependent and increased by Tetronic 1107 treatment
David McCanna reviews Tahmina Khan’s in vitro work which examines the mechanism of fluorescein uptake into cells, and how this is modulated by a particular surfactant found in some MPS Continue reading
Practitioner Reference: Evolving our Understanding of SICS
A new SICS factsheet is available for practitioners to download, providing a summary of key information about SICS along with advice on how to deal with it in practice. Continue reading
Poster: Cellular fluorescein hyperfluorescence is dynamin-dependent and is increased with Tetronic 1107 treatment
The feature article of this issue of Contact Lens Update reviews the full paper by Khan et al on their work with cellular fluorescein hyperfluorescence and dynamin, where they demonstrate, via in vitro model, that fluorescein uptake into cells is an active process, which is enhanced in the presence of the surfactant Tetronic 1107 (found in some multipurpose care solutions) This poster preceded the paper, and was presented at ISCLR, Washington, US, 2017. It provides a short, easily digestible summary of the work. Continue reading
