Effect of donor and recipient factors on corneal graft rejection

Cornea

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1141-1147

  Stulting, R Doyle ^a,k   Sugar, Alan ^b   Beck, Roy ^c   Belin, Michael ^d,l   Dontchev, Mariya ^c   Feder, Robert S ^e   Gal, Robin L ^c   Holland, Edward J ^f   Kollman, Craig ^c   Mannis, Mark J ^g   Price, Francis ^h   Stark, Walter ⁱ   Verdier, David D ^j  

^a EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c JAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Cornea Consultants of Albany ^*  (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h PRICE VISION GROUP   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j Verdier Eye Center   (United States)

^k Woolfson Eye Institute   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

corneal allograft rejection; corneal transplantation; graft failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHAKIA, POSTCATARACT; CHILD; CORNEAL EDEMA; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866264163     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31823f77f5     Document Type: Article

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