ONE CORNEA TWO RECIPIENTS: FEEDING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE SCONE
- Author:
Sujaya Singh
1
;
Reena Kaur
1
;
Marium Jamaluddin
1
;
Azida Juana
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: DSEK; patch graft; transplant; pseudophakic bullow keratopathy; limbal dermoid
- MeSH: Transplants
- From:Journal of University of Malaya Medical Centre 2023;26(1):5-8
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
- Abstract: The existing shortage of local donor corneas in our institution (University Malaya) and Malaysia, in general, prompted us to attempt the use of one donor cornea for two transplantation procedures; Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSEK) in a case of a pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK) with underlying Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED) and lamellar patch graft in a case of limbal dermoid. The donor cornea was divided into anterior and posterior lamellae manually. The anterior corneal button was used as a patch graft for anterior lamellar keratoplasty in a 6-year-old patient with limbal dermoid, and the posterior corneal button was used for a DSEK procedure in a 68-year-old patient with corneal decompensation. Both patients had a stable and good visual outcome throughout a 1-year postoperative period. This allows the use of one corneal tissue by more than one recipient to overcome the shortage in donor corneas.
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