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Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India

INTRODUCTION: Nearly 6.8 million people in India have vision less than 6/60 in at least one eye due to corneal diseases; of these, about a million had bilateral involvement. PURPOSE: To identify the challenges faced; the trends in collection, storage and utilisation of corneal tissues in an eye bank...

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Autores principales: Arya, S. K., Raj, Amit, Deswal, Jyoti, Kohli, Piyush, Rai, Raghavendra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8087588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33893934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10792-021-01736-x
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author Arya, S. K.
Raj, Amit
Deswal, Jyoti
Kohli, Piyush
Rai, Raghavendra
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description INTRODUCTION: Nearly 6.8 million people in India have vision less than 6/60 in at least one eye due to corneal diseases; of these, about a million had bilateral involvement. PURPOSE: To identify the challenges faced; the trends in collection, storage and utilisation of corneal tissues in an eye bank in north India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The past records of Eye Bank linked to a tertiary hospital in northern India were analysed from November’1999 to October’2015 with respect to number of eye donations per year, donor demographics and utilisation of corneal tissues. RESULTS: The number of donations during the first 6 years were 100, 279 in the next 5 years and 473 in the last 5 years. The mean donor age was 63.2 ± 19.5 years. The percentage of donors less than 30, 31–60 and more than 60 years was 10%, 28% and 62%. Forty-two percent donations were from the hospital. The average time between the death and enucleation was 4.74 ± 5.31 hours. The percentage of corneas used in the donor age groups less than 30, 31–60 and above 60 years was 61.9%, 61.6% and 53.8%, respectively. The usability rate of the corneas from home and hospital was 63.7% and 55.3%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The eye bank had a lukewarm response in the beginning, but gained momentum with time. The myths and beliefs prevalent in our society deter people from donating eyes freely. Each eye bank needs to individualise its problems and find solutions for adequate procurement and utilisation of tissue.
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spelling pubmed-80875882021-05-05 Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India Arya, S. K. Raj, Amit Deswal, Jyoti Kohli, Piyush Rai, Raghavendra Int Ophthalmol Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Nearly 6.8 million people in India have vision less than 6/60 in at least one eye due to corneal diseases; of these, about a million had bilateral involvement. PURPOSE: To identify the challenges faced; the trends in collection, storage and utilisation of corneal tissues in an eye bank in north India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The past records of Eye Bank linked to a tertiary hospital in northern India were analysed from November’1999 to October’2015 with respect to number of eye donations per year, donor demographics and utilisation of corneal tissues. RESULTS: The number of donations during the first 6 years were 100, 279 in the next 5 years and 473 in the last 5 years. The mean donor age was 63.2 ± 19.5 years. The percentage of donors less than 30, 31–60 and more than 60 years was 10%, 28% and 62%. Forty-two percent donations were from the hospital. The average time between the death and enucleation was 4.74 ± 5.31 hours. The percentage of corneas used in the donor age groups less than 30, 31–60 and above 60 years was 61.9%, 61.6% and 53.8%, respectively. The usability rate of the corneas from home and hospital was 63.7% and 55.3%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The eye bank had a lukewarm response in the beginning, but gained momentum with time. The myths and beliefs prevalent in our society deter people from donating eyes freely. Each eye bank needs to individualise its problems and find solutions for adequate procurement and utilisation of tissue. Springer Netherlands 2021-04-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8087588/ /pubmed/33893934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10792-021-01736-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Raj, Amit
Deswal, Jyoti
Kohli, Piyush
Rai, Raghavendra
Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India
title Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India
title_full Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India
title_fullStr Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India
title_full_unstemmed Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India
title_short Donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in Eye Bank of North India
title_sort donor demographics and factors affecting corneal utilisation in eye bank of north india
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8087588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33893934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10792-021-01736-x
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