Devastating outcome after only 6 hours of contact lens wear

Pandya, Vivek B; Martins, Alessandra; Sharma, Shanel

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02096.x

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To the Editor: Microbial keratitis associated with soft contact lens wear is a well recognised, not uncommon, clinical entity and a preventable cause of ocular morbidity.1,2

1 Department of Ophthalmology, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
2 Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.

Correspondence: shanel@unsw.edu.au

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3. Green MD, Apel AJ, Naduvilath T, Stapleton FJ. Clinical outcomes of keratitis. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2007; 35: 421-426.
4. Stapleton F, Keay L, Sanfilippo PG, et al. Relationship between climate, disease severity, and causative organism for contact lens-associated microbial keratitis in Australia. Am J Ophthalmol 2007; 144: 690-698.
5. Constantinou M, Daniell M, Snibson GR, et al. Clinical efficacy of moxifloxacin in the treatment of bacterial keratitis: a randomized clinical trial. Ophthalmology 2007; 114: 1622-1629.

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