The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: report of the contact lens materials, design, and care subcommittee.

The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: report of the subcommittee on epidemiology.

This report characterizes the neurobiology of the ocular surface and highlights relevant mechanisms that may underpin contact lens-related discomfort. While there is limited evidence for the mechanisms involved in contact lens-related discomfort, neurobiological mechanisms in dry eye disease, the inflammatory pathway, the effect of hyperosmolarity on ocular surface nociceptors, and subsequent s...

Special Issue The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: Executive Summary

ed from the full reports. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF CLD While clinicians practicing in the area of contact lenses all are familiar with CLD, a variety of terms and verbiage have been used to describe this problem. Typically these patients present with symptoms of ocular discomfort of some sort (e.g., dryness, irritation, discomfort, fatigue, and so forth), and it is common Copyright 2013...

The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: report of the contact lens interactions with the ocular surface and adnexa subcommittee.

Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and School of Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia Centre for Contact Lens Research, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Ocular Surface Center Berl...

The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: report of the contact lens interactions with the tear film subcommittee.

Department of Ophthalmology, New Zealand National Eye Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Schepens Eye Research Institute and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Optometric Technology Group Research & Consultancy, London, United Kingdom...

The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: executive summary.