Risk factors for donor cornea contamination: Retrospective analysis of 4546 procured corneas in a single eye bank

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-148

  Linke, Stephan J ^a   Fricke, Otto H ^a   Eddy, Mau Thek ^a   Bednarz, Jürgen ^b   Druchkiv, Vasyl ^a   Kaulfers, Paul Michael ^a   Wulff, Birgit ^a   Püschel, Klaus ^a   Richard, Gisbert ^a   Hellwinkel, Olaf J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b T2Cure GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

contamination; cornea; database; in situ explantation; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORNEA; EYEBANK; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE MEDIA; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84872964256     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31825d586b     Document Type: Article

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