Profile and classification of the patients and the different kinds of fitted contact lenses
| Age, follow up time, and time between keratoplasty and first contact lens fitting are giving as means. | |
| The group of tricurve contact lenses is subdivided into one group without bitoric design (6) and one with bitoric design. The front toric design, which does not influence the back design but can improve the refraction, is part of the tricurve lenses. | |
| Total number | 28 |
| Male | 13 |
| Female | 8 |
| Binocular | 7 |
| Age | Mean 43 years (min 20 years; max 61 years) |
| Indications for penetrating keratoplasty | |
| Keratoconus | 14 |
| Fuchs’ dystrophy | 6 |
| Corneal scarring | 4 |
| Corneal ulcer | 2 |
| Herpes | 2 |
| Follow up time (mean) | 15.5 months (max 50 months; min 4 months) |
| Time between keratoplasty and first contact lens fitting (mean) | 42.5 months (max 336 months; min 2 months) |
| Sutures removed? | |
| One | 2 |
| Both | 19 |
| No | 7 |
| Contact lens material | |
| Rigid gas permeable | 28 |
| Soft | 0 |
| Contact lens back surface design | |
| Tetracurve reverse | 10 |
| Tricurve | 11 |
| Bitoric | 5 |
| Keratoconus design | 3 |
| Oblong | 4 |
| Contact lens front surface design | |
| Front toric | 1 |