Very early endothelial cell loss after simultaneous corneal autograft and allograft

Cornea
Nelly CampolmiPhilippe Gain

Abstract

For a better understanding of the very early endothelial cell (EC) loss universally described after all types of keratoplasty, we compared the EC decrease after performing a simultaneous autograft and organ-cultured allograft. A 71-year-old woman presented with a central corneal opacity in her left eye and a profoundly amblyopic right eye with a transparent cornea. Both corneas had a normal EC density (ECD). She underwent a left autograft and a right allograft procedure with an organ-cultured cornea, in which the ECD was determined using a calibrated light microscope with image analysis 48 hours before the surgery, that is, just before the final deswelling step with dextran. The postoperative central ECD was determined using specular microscopy on days (D) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 20, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 180. Both grafts were uneventful. For the autograft, the pregraft ECD was 2303 cells per square millimeter, and the cell loss was very low, from 4% (D1) to 3% (D180). For the allograft, the pregraft eye bank ECD was 2787, and this decreased by 32% on D5. On D180, the ECD decrease was almost stabilized at 38%. This difference between the autograft and allograft, both performed in corneas with a normal peripheral endothelial reserve, ...Continue Reading

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Dec 15, 2016·The British Journal of Ophthalmology·Anne Sophie GauthierPhilippe Gain
Aug 20, 2015·Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Für Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie·T RöckD Röck

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