Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 127-134 , September 2005

Changes in water content of high plus hydrogel lenses worn on an extended wear basis in a geriatric aphakic population

  • Sudi Patel

      Affiliations

    • Vissum/Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Avda de Denia s/n, Edificio Vissum, 03016 Alicante, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Practitioner Services, NHSScotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Cres, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB, UK.
    • ,
  • Waheeda Illahi

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Ophthalmology, Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
    • ,
  • Arthur Davies

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Ophthalmology, Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK

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☆ The authors have neither financial nor propriety interests in any of the products mentioned in this paper.

PII: S1367-0484(05)00045-7

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2005.06.001

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 127-134 , September 2005

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