Four hundred (400) students studying first year Medicine, Dentistry, Laboratory Technology, Pharmacy, Biomedicine and Bioengineering degree courses in the University of Malaya were assessed on their awareness and knowledge on eye donation using an open ended questionnaire. The majority of the students (344, 86%) in this study were aware about eye donation; the awareness was higher in biomedical...

PURPOSE To evaluate donor demographics, trends in donor tissue procurement and tissue storage over a long period. METHODS A retrospective, longitudinal, descriptive analysis was undertaken of data from the Hamburg Eye Bank Data Base (HEB-DB) that had been collected between 1981 and 2010. Data on 54 parameters of cornea donors [including clinical history, age, death cause, gender and death-to-...

Organ retrieval provides a service to both recipients and donor families. Many patients and their families wish to donate organs at the time of death and eye donation is rarely contraindicated. Corneal transplantation is a commonly performed procedure in Canada and is done either to restore sight or eye integrity. Corneal scarring, degeneration and dystrophy, keratoconus and keratoglobus are co...

are: improvements in microsurgical technique; advances in drug therapy including antivirals, and in particular anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs; improved diagnosis and case selection aided by tissue typing of the potential recipient who has a vascularised cornea. The use of eye banks is commonplace in America3, but in this country fresh donor material is used, usually within 24 hou...

conclusions we found acceptable short-term survival in both groups; however, living donor recipients continue to have better long-term patient and graft survival rates. results although there were no significant differences in one-year survival rates of patient and graft between study groups, three-years survival rates of patient and graft were significantly longer in living donor kidney transp...

PURPOSE The Minnesota Grading System (MGS) is a method to evaluate human eye bank eyes and determine the level of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), by using criteria and definitions from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). METHODS Donor eyes (108 pairs) from the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank were cut circumferentially at the pars plana to remove the anterior segment. A 1000 +/- 2.5-mi...

Case reporting the use of one donor cornea for two transplantation procedures: deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) in a case of an imminent corneal perforation caused by herpetic stromal necrosis, and Descemet stripping with endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) in an eye with pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK). Descemet's membrane (DM), denuded by stromal necrosis, served as the starting ...