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Drug Delivery from Ophthalmic Lenses

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Glaucoma is one of the most common diseases that is characterized by an increase of the IOP that can lead to the damage of the optical nerve. Glaucoma patients are usually treated with eye drops. However, the effectiveness of glaucoma drops is very law because less than 5% of the applied drug reaches the target. In this paper, we discuss mathematically the use of therapeutic contact lenses to deliver drugs to the anterior chamber of the eye reviewing some of the recent contributions.

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This work was partially supported by the Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra—UID/MAT/00324/2019, funded by the Portuguese Government through FCT/MEC and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Partnership Agreement PT2020.

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    José Augusto Ferreira

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  1. Institute of Computational Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria

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    Alessandra Micheletti

  3. Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Cláudia Nunes

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Ferreira, J.A. (2020). Drug Delivery from Ophthalmic Lenses. In: Lindner, E., Micheletti, A., Nunes, C. (eds) Mathematical Modelling in Real Life Problems. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50388-8_5

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