Posters

Clinical efficacy of sutureless dehydrated amniotic membrane assisted therapeutic contact lens for treatment of ocular surface disease

Poster Details

First Author: K.Kim SOUTH KOREA

Co Author(s):    S. Song   B. Kim   Y. Kwon   K. Hwang   K. Koh   M. Kang     

Abstract Details

Purpose:

To investigate the efficacy and safety of dehydrated amniotic membrane with therapeutic contact lens in various ocular surface disease.

Setting:

Retrospective study/ Kim`s Eye Hospital

Methods:

The study included 14 eyes of 13 patients treated with dehydrated amniotic membrane assisted therapeutic contact lens for various ocular surface disease. Patients were followed up for 1, 2, and 4 weeks after treatment, and the therapeutic contact lens was removed at 2 weeks. The size of the corneal lesion and the degree of pain before and after the procedure in the whole cornea was measured.

Results:

Thirteen patients (9 female and 4 male) between 21 and 83 years of age (53.43 ± 22.62 years old) were included. Significant corneal re-epithelization was observed in all cases. Complete corneal re-epithelialization of the epithelial defect was observed in 8 eyes from 14 eyes (57.14%). Pain score was significantly decrease after the procedure.

Conclusions:

Dehydrated amniotic membrane assisted therapeutic contact lens seems to be enough advantage to be used as a simple technique in outpatient without invasive procedure in the treatment of various ocular surface diseases.

Financial Disclosure:

None