Risk factors for graft failure after penetrating keratoplasty: 5-year follow-up from the corneal transplant epidemiological study

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1328-1335

  Fasolo, Adriano ^a   Capuzzo, Cristina ^b   Fornea, Michela ^b   Franch, Antonella ^c   Birattari, Federica ^c   Carito, Giuseppe ^d   Cucco, Flavio ^d   Prosdocimo, Giovanni ^e   Sala, Michele ^e   Noci, Nicola Delle ^f   Primavera, Vito ^f   Frigo, Anna Chiara ^b   Grigoletto, Francesco ^b   Ponzin, Diego ^a  

^a The Veneto Eye Bank Foundation   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale SS Giovanni e Paolo   (Italy)

^d UO Oculistica Casa di Cura Pederzoli Peschiera Del Garda   (Italy)

^e Ospedale De Gironcoli   (Italy)

^f OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

eye banking; graft survival; penetrating keratoplasty; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; EYEBANK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT MONITORING; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOPHAKIC CORNEAL EDEMA; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS KERATITIS; VITRECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81355148833     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318206895a     Document Type: Article

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