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    <title>Silicone hydrogels</title>
    <subTitle>continuous-wear contact lenses</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sweeney, D. (Deborah)</namePart>
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    <publisher>Butterworth Heinemann</publisher>
    <publisher>British Contact Lens Association</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2004</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>1 Silicone hydrogels: structure, properties and behaviour Brian Tighe -- 2 The epithelium in extended wear Graeme Wilson, Patrick M. Ladage and H. Dwight Cavanagh -- 3 Tear mixing under soft contact lenses Kimberly L. Miller, Meng C. Lin, Clayton J. Radke and Kenneth A. Polse -- 4 Inflammation and infection and the effects of the closed eye Mark Willcox et al -- 5 Corneal hypoxia Noel A. Brennan and Desmond Fonn -- 6 Clinical performance of silicone hydrogel lenses Deborah F. Sweeney et al -- 7 Adverse events and infections: which ones and how many Padmaja R. Sankaridurg, Brien A. Holden and Isabelle Jalbert -- 8 Where do silicone hydrogels fit into everyday practice? Noel A. Brennan, M-L. Chantal Coles and Anna K. Dahl.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by D. Sweeney.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic</topic>
    <topic>adverse effects</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Silicones in medicine</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Soft contact lenses</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Lentilles de contact hydrophiles</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Silicones</topic>
    <topic>adverse effects</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Hydrogels</topic>
    <topic>adverse effects</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Contact Lenses, Extended-Wear</topic>
    <topic>adverse effects</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">617.7523 S583 2004</classification>
  <classification authority="nlm">2004 J-120</classification>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0750687797</identifier>
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