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JOSEPH M. DIXON, M.D.; ELMAR LAWACZECK, M.D.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1963;69(1):72-75.

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Vascularization of the cornea caused by wearing contact lenses has been observed clinically and in experimental animals. Several million Americans are wearing these lenses. The prevention of this type of corneal vascularization requires an understanding of the conditions producing it.

Clinical Observations

Lauber¹ in 1929 and Strebel² in 1937 reported corneal vascularization due to wearing scleral lenses. Strebel stated that vascularization of the cornea in keratoconus developed after wearing the lenses in the presence of central erosions but that it was beneficial in flattening the corneal curvature.

Delgado,³ Paton,⁴ and Baird⁵ have contributed clinical cases to this report. Delgado's case was a brush-like vascularization of the deep corneal stroma extending to within 2 mm. of the corneal apex. The patient was a 50-year-old man with aphakia who used the lenses for 6 months, frequently sleeping with them on the corneas. After the lenses were discontinued, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Birmingham, Ala.

From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama Medical Center. Supported in part by a research grant from the Mueller Welt Contact Lens Company.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 1, 1962.

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Section on Ophthalmology, American Medical Association, Chicago, June 25, 1962.

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