Profile and Performance of Rigid Gas Permeable and Scleral Lenses on Keratoconic Patients in the Developing Contact Lens Practice Settings

• 作者: Harun Chemjor Walter Kibet Yego
• 来源期刊: 眼科学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: KERATOCONUS Visual Outcome Rigid Gas Permeable Scleral Lenses Developing Practices
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（3）
• 页码范围: 201-209
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

</span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Purpose:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </b></span><b> </b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">To present the profile of keratoconic contact lens wearers, alongside with per</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">formance of corneal and scleral rigid gas permeable (RGP) at different stages of keratoconus based on limited diagnostic resources. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </b></span><b><span> </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">5-year Clinical records of keratoconic corneal and scleral RGP contact lens w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">earers were retrieved. Data on age, gender, visual acuity (VA), refraction (RE), stage of keratoconus and mode of correction among other variables w</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ere</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> obtained for analysis. Information pertaining to the outcome in pre and post-fit at different severity w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">as</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> determined. </span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </b></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> A total of 124 medical records were analyzed, with the age (20.86 ± 9.50 years), gender (58.9% male and 41.1% female), Laterality (57.3% bilateral, 26.6% right eye and left eye as 16.1%) and ethnicity (91.1% Africans and 8.9%</span></span><span style="font-family:""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Asians). There were no significant differences in effects of lenses (RGP and Scleral lenses) across three stages in visual acuity and in three stages o</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">f severity H</span>_{<span style="font-family:Verdana;">RGP</span>}<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> (2