. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 5.

Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2011 Feb 4;118(5):920–926. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.09.011

Table 1.

Patient Demographics and Rate of Surgical Intervention by Primary Presenting Factor

	Refractive Contact Lens Wear^*	Ocular Trauma^†	Ocular Surface Disease^‡	No Identified Risk Factor at Presentation
Total cases	268	180	209	76
Age (mean ± SD)	38.9±16.5	46.2±16.5	60.3±18.5	49.8±19.8
Female No. (%)	169 (63.1)	40 (22.2)	106 (50.7)	28 (36.8)
Multiple risk factors No. (%)	41 (15.3)	13 (7.2)	72 (34.4)	0 (0)
Surgical intervention required No. (%)	45 (16.8)	33 (18.3)	93 (44.4)	21 (27.6)

SD = standard deviation.

Limited to patients in whom contact lenses were used for correction of simple refractive error.

^†

Corneal foreign body injury or major ocular trauma.

^‡

Includes therapeutic contact lens wearers, postsurgical cases, chronic steroid or antibiotic use and ocular surface disease, or systemic disease.