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Eye banking: an introduction. [PDF]
Community eye health, 2009 This article introduces the work of eye banks, institutions responsible for collecting (harvesting) and processing donor corneas, and for distributing them to trained corneal graft surgeons.
Gullapalli N Rao, Usha Gopinathan
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Corneal Transplantation: A Report From the Italian Association of Eye Banks. [PDF]
Front Med (Lausanne), 2022 PurposeTo analyze the impact of COVID-19 on Italian corneal transplantation from March-2020 to February 2021 compared to the same timeframe of the 2 previous years, in order to identify potential consequences of a global pandemic on corneal procurement ...
Mencucci R +7 more
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Quality indicators for eye bank
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2018 The aim of this study is to identify quality indicators of the eye bank and validate their effectivity.Adverse reaction rate, discard rate, protocol deviation rate, and compliance rate were defined as Quality Indicators of the eye bank. These were identified based on definition of quality that captures two dimensions - "result quality" and "process ...
Umang Mathur +6 more
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Evolution of eye banking in India – A review
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 Corneal blindness ranks third among the causes of blindness worldwide, after cataract and glaucoma. Corneal transplantation offers us a means to address this, and is currently the most commonly performed transplantation procedure worldwide – restoring the gift of sight to many an eye. Eye banks play a very important role in these procedures.
Josephine S Christy +4 more
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Indian J Ophthalmol, 2021 Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on keratoplasty and Eye Banking in India. Methods: An e-mail survey was conducted among cornea surgeons and eye bankers of India.
Roy A, Chaurasia S, Fernandes M, Das S.
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14 Validation of transport systems to ensure quality of tissue delivered to eye banks. [PDF]
BMJ Open Ophthalmol, 2022 Eagle M, Rooney PP.
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Effect of Covid-19 on Eye Banks and Corneal Transplantations: Current Perspectives. [PDF]
Clin Ophthalmol, 2022 Francesco Aiello,1 Gabriele Gallo Afflitto,1,2 Giulio Pocobelli,1 Diego Ponzin,3 Carlo Nucci1 1Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; 2Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami ...
Aiello F +4 more
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Eye Bank Records on Pediatric Keratoplasty
Journal of Ophthalmic and Vision Research, 2022 Purpose: To report eye bank records for pediatric keratoplasty in Iran between 2006 and 2019. Methods: In a retrospective study, all electronic records of the Central Eye Bank of Iran for pediatric keratoplasty between April 2006 and March 2019 were analyzed in terms of indications for keratoplasty, surgical techniques, their corresponding trends, and
Seyed Mohamadmehdi Moshtaghion +5 more
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