To examine contamination of donor eye preservation media with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), we studied the media to detect specific genes for MRSA by use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The materials were 36 samples of donor eye preservation media (EP-II) in which donor eyes had been stored for keratoplasty. Polymerase chain reaction procedures were carried ...

IN over 100 corneal grafts carried out in this clinic from 1960 to 1966, it was found that the edges of the donor discs varied in shape when observed from the side, and these variations were of sufficient clinical importance to determine the success of the results, the best grafts being those with clean-cut straight edges. These observations led us to seek a procedure whereby the desired shape ...

Background: The present study was conducted to the donor profile and assess trends of cornea donation. Methodology: This as a hospital based cross sectional at tertiary care centre in Central India for period 5 years. Data retrieved from 70 patients eye bank who filled form donation Eye our institution. Sociodemographic donors, cause death time since recorded. Source information regarding corne...

PURPOSE Surface disease is one of multiple variables affecting the quality of the postkeratoplasty donor cornea. Trauma to Bowman's layer before and during harvesting can denude the donor epithelium and result in epithelial defects in the donor following penetrating keratoplasty. Eye banks use death-to-preservation (DP) time intervals as long as 18 hours. This study evaluates the effects of hig...

BACKGROUND The European Eye Bank Association (EEBA) is a technical-scientific organization for eye banks. Founded in 1989 with the simple objective of sharing information on eye banking, the Association is today the leading pan-national association in Europe dedicated to the advancement of eye banking and an authoritative reference point for eye banks which work according to quality standards. ...

Double-nasal and double-temporal compound eyes were constructed in Xenopus embryos at stages 32 and 37/38. A particular half was removed from the host eye anlage and replaced with the opposite half-eye from the contralateral side of a donor embryo. Control operations consisted of removing a half-eye and replacing it with a similar half from the ipsilateral side of the donor embryo. Whereas in c...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To preliminarily evaluate the repeatability of central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements performed with Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) on eye bank posterior corneal lenticules. METHODS Six donor lenticules were created with a 350 μm head microkeratome (Moria, Antony, France). All donor tissues were stored at 4°C in Eusol-C solution (Alchimia S.r.l, P...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the aims, methods, donor and recipient cohort characteristics, and potential impact of the Cornea Preservation Time Study (CPTS). METHODS The CPTS is a randomized clinical trial conducted at 40 clinical sites (70 surgeons) designed to assess the effect of donor cornea preservation time (PT) on graft survival 3 years after Descemet stripping automa...