While prevention is the most desirable way to control corneal blindness, once a cornea has lost its transparency, a corneal transplant, or graft, is a patient’s best chance to regain vision in the affected eye(s). However, the biggest limiting factor is the worldwide shortage of donated corneas. In lowand middle-income countries, where the magnitude of corneal blindness is greatest, the availab...

BACKGROUND Diseases produced for Candida species (spp) are called candidiasis and this includes settling, superficial infection, deep tissue invasion and haematogenic dissemination (eyes, the skin, the kidneys and the brain). The species that more usually cause candidiasis are C. albicans, C. tropicalis and C. glabrata. These species usually are found in the normal microbial populations of the ...

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...

We find that firms with greater tax avoidance incur higher spreads when obtaining bank loans. This finding is robust in a battery of sensitivity analyses and in two quasiexperimental settings including the implementation of Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48 and the revelation of past tax sheltering activity. Firms with greater tax avoidance also incur more stringent non...

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Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) is the most common corneal transplant procedure. A key step in the procedure is preparing the donor cornea for transplantation. This can be accomplished via 1 of 3 alternatives: surgeon cuts the cornea on the day of surgery, the cornea is precut ahead of time in an offsite facility by a trained technician, or a precut cornea is purch...