Elevated Toxoplasma gondii Infection Rates for Retinas from Eye Banks, Southern Brazil [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 We found significantly higher incidence of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in eye bank specimens from Joinville in southern Brazil (13/15, 87%) than in São Paulo (3/42, 7%; p = 2.1 × 10E–8).
Alessandra G. Commodaro +5 more
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A comparative review between the updated models of Brazilian, United Kingdom and American eye banks and lamellar transplants [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2014 The corneal transplantation (CT) is the most commonly performed type of transplant in the world and the Eye Banks are organizations whose capture, evaluate, preserve, store and distribute ocular tissues.
Gustavo Victor +4 more
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Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it the huge burden of mortality and morbidity across the world and the added effects of the mandatory lockdown measures to try and control the spread. A number of aspects of healthcare including eye donation and eye
Namrata Sharma +9 more
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Quality indicators for eye bank
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2018 Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify quality indicators of the eye bank and validate their effectivity. Methods: Adverse reaction rate, discard rate, protocol deviation rate, and compliance rate were defined as Quality Indicators of the eye bank.
Manisha Acharya +6 more
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In situ cornea harvesting through the Red Cross Organization: a new approach to relieving severe cornea donor shortage in Chinese eye banks. [PDF]
Int J Ophthalmol, 2017 Li SX, Wang FH, Wang T, Han SS, Shi WY.
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Community Eye Health Journal, 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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Biobanking of Human Retinas: The Next Big Leap for Eye Banks? [PDF]
Stem Cells Transl Med, 2015 Lužnik Z +5 more
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Knowledge and Attitude about Eye Donation among First and Second versus Final Year MBBS Students: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: The cure of corneal blindness requires manifold increase in the rate of eye donation. The present study was undertaken to assess the knowledge and attitude about eye donation among medical students. A secondary objective of the study was to
Sumit Goyal +5 more
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A New Online Portal Will Match Eye Banks With Researchers Seeking Human Ocular Tissues. [PDF]
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2018 Curcio CA.
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Commentary: Procurement, storage and utilization trends of eye banks in India
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019 N Venkatesh Prajna
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