Characterization of cornea donors at a tissue center in the city of Medellin, Colombia

Juan Camilo Cadavid Usuga; María Isabel Maya Naranjo; Sara Mesa Mesa; Ana Isabel Rivera; María Paula Hincapié; María Fernanda Granados; Catalina Betancur; Jorge Hernando Donado Gomez

doi:10.1007/s10561-023-10124-x

Characterization of cornea donors at a tissue center in the city of Medellin, Colombia

Juan Camilo Cadavid Usuga
, María Isabel Maya Naranjo
, Sara Mesa Mesa
, Ana Isabel Rivera
, María Paula Hincapié
, María Fernanda Granados
, Catalina Betancur
, Jorge Hernando Donado Gomez

Internal Medicine and Critical Care

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Abstract

The cornea transplant is considered the most frequently performed type of transplant in the world, with a demand that has been increasing in recent years. An observational descriptive study was conducted, focusing on the ocular tissue extracted from cadaveric donors from January 2019 to December 2021 at the Red Cross Eye Bank in Medellin, Colombia. This is the first epidemiological characterization of corneal donor tissues within the eye banks of our city, where high rates of violence-related deaths explain that tissue donors are mostly young individuals. This, in turn, results in excellent counts of endothelial cells and tissue viability in their microscopic studies. Additionally, there are lower rates of discarded tissues compared to similar studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	619-623
Number of pages	5
Journal	Cell and Tissue Banking
Volume	25
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10561-023-10124-x
State	Published - Jun 2024

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Keywords

Cornea
Corneal transplantation
Eye banks
Tissue donors

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Characterization of cornea donors at a tissue center in the city of Medellin, Colombia

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