Drug delivery through soft contact lenses.
Open Access
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 72 (2) , 150-154
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.72.2.150
Abstract
Clinical studies were conducted on 466 patients waiting for senile cataract surgery and receiving chloromycetin, gentamicin, or carbenicillin subconjunctivally and through New Sauflon 70 and New Sauflon 85 lenses. The aqueous drug levels were biologically estimated at various time intervals. Soft contact lenses provided significantly higher drug penetration than subconjunctival therapy. Both modes of treatment provided therapeutically effective levels against most of the common ocular pathogens for varying intervals of 2 to 12 hours.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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