Revlens: a new, soft acrylic rubber extended-wear contact lens

Revlens is a new, soft acrylic rubber extended-wear contact lens. We fitted 21 eyes in 15 patients. The indications included 15 eyes in 10 patients with aphakia due to congenital cataracts. The developmental cataracts were associated with persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous, Down's syndrome, microphthalmos and Peter's anomaly. The remaining five patients included one Tyrosinase negative oculocutaneous albino and four anisometropic amblyopes. Three of the aphakic patients were unable to wear this lens. One preferred her previous rigid lens, another refused any contact lens and went back to glasses, and a third did not adapt to the lens because of social circumstances. Thus 12 of the 15 patients (80%) who were monitored for at least 6 months (average: 9 months) readily accepted this new lens.