Corneal evaluation of prospective aphakic wearers of contact lenses.

A recent investigation' has shown that the comea of the aphakic eye swells less than that of the normal fellow eye when fitted with identical hydrophilic lenses. This confirms previous clinical impressions and would suggest that a metabolic difference may exist between the corneas of the normal and the aphakic eye. The present investigation was therefore devised to assess certain aspects of the basal corneal metabolism of a group of monocular aphakic patients, the fellow normal eye being used as the control.