background: amoebic keratitis introduced as a painful corneal infection which sometimes lead to poor vision and blind-ness. the main goal of this study was to report amoebic keratitis during ten years from 1997-2007 in patients who was sus-pected to have amoebic keratitis and referred to parasitology laboratory, school of public health, tehran univer¬sity of medical sciences, iran. other aim wa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk factors that may contribute to microbial keratitis in contact lens wearers. MATERIAL AND METHOD This prospective case-control study included 52 patients with contact lens related keratitis treated between 1 December 2006 and 15 October 2007 at the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital. Controls were sixty-three contact lens users attending with disorders unrelat...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the product performance of a novel one-step hydrogen peroxide cleaning and disinfecting solution, PeroxiClear ("Test" solution), when used by habitual Clear Care users to bilaterally clean and disinfect their soft contact lenses, for approximately 2 weeks. METHODS This was a 2-week, open-label, bilateral eye study designed to include subjects ranging in age from 1...

PURPOSE To assess the use of multipurpose lens care products via an online survey conducted among soft contact lens (SCL) wearers in Japan. METHODS The subjects were 1000 men and women aged 15-44 years who reported that they cleaned their SCL by using multipurpose solution at least twice a week. Via the internet, they were asked questions about SCL care, the use of a rubbing step when cleanin...

Lower- and higher-order wave-front aberrations of soft contact lenses were accurately measured with a Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensor. The soft contact lenses were placed in a wet cell filled with lens solution to prevent surface deformation and desiccation during measurements. Aberration measurements of conventional toric and multifocal soft contact lenses and a customized soft contact lens h...

BACKGROUND/AIM Contact lens cases contaminated with Acanthamoeba are a major risk factor for an infection of the eye. In this study the anti-Acanthamoeba activity of three different contact lens storage solutions was tested. METHODS A new multipurpose contact lens storage solution (Meni Care Plus) and a two step (Titmus H(2)O(2)) and one step (Oxysept Comfort) hydrogen peroxide system were te...