Midterm outcomes of autologous cultivated limbal stem cell transplantation with or without penetrating keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 502-509

  Baradaran Rafii, Alireza ^a   Ebrahimi, Marzieh ^b   Kanavi, Mozhgan Rezaei ^a,c   Taghi Abadi, Ehsan ^b   Aghdami, Nasser ^b   Eslani, Medi ^a   Bakhtiari, Pejman ^a,d   Einollahi, Bahram ^a   Baharvand, Hossein ^b,e   Javadi, Mohammad Ali ^a,c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^c Central Eye Bank of Iran   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cornea; Cultured cells; Limbal stem cell deficiency; Penetrating keratoplasty; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; BETAMETHASONE; BRIMONIDINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DORZOLAMIDE; FLUOROMETHOLONE; LATANOPROST; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TIMOLOL;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AMNION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CATARACT; CHEMICAL BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA OPACITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AMNION; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BURNS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951769303     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181bd9f60     Document Type: Article

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