BookNathan Efron.
Summary: "In this thoroughly updated fourth edition, award-winning contact lens author, lecturer, and researcher, Professor Nathan Efron, presents an easily accessible, systematic account of how to identify, understand, and manage contact lens complications. Professor Efron is renowned for his ability to distil often-complex principles of ocular physiology and pathology into a clinically-friendly format. The subject matter is arranged logically by tissue structure - which is the way practitioners naturally approach clinical problems"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Part I: Examination and grading. Anterior eye examination
Grading scales
Grading morphs
Part II: Eyelids. Blinking abnormalities
Lid wiper epitheliopathy
Eyelid ptosis
Meibomian gland dysfunction
Eyelash disorders
Part III: Tear film. Dry eye
Mucin balls
Part IV: Conjunctiva. Conjunctival staining
Lid-parallel conjunctival folds
Conjunctival redness
Papillary conjunctivitis
Part V: Limbus. Limbal redness
Vascularized limbal keratitis
Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis
Part VI: Corneal epithelium. Corneal staining
Epithelial microcysts
Epithelial oedema
Epithelial wrinkling
Part VII: Corneal stroma. Stromal oedema
Stromal thinning
Deep stromal opacities
Corneal neovascularization
Corneal infiltrative events
Microbial keratitis
Corneal warpage
Part VIII: Corneal endothelium. Endothelial bedewing
Endothelial blebs
Endothelial cell redistribution
Endothelial polymegethism
Appendices. Grading scales for contact lens complications
Guillon tear film classification system.