A Newport Beach doctor has shared a now-viral video of her removing nearly two dozen contact lenses from the eye of an elderly patient.
Dr. Katerina Kurteeva shared the video onof the patient who came in saying she was feeling a pain developing in her eyes and her vision was turning blurry.
Dr. Kurteeva ruled out debris or a scratch on the patient's cornea. She used another medical device - known as an eyelid speculum - to further examine the eye. This device enables the doctor to hold open the patient's eyelids at the same time. "They were coming out in a chain, drooping down her lid. There were a lot of contact lenses. I thought this could be my Guinness Book of World Record moment,""So next thing I know, I'm pulling on this blob and it's like a deck of cards. Basically, these contact lenses, they're very thin and they're very smooth. So over time, they just kind of created this kind of like a pancake of contacts, and they're all congealed.
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