Incidence and outcome of transplantation of fungal-culture-positive donor corneoscleral tissue in optical keratoplasty.

Purpose: This study aims to determine the incidence of fungal-culture-positive corneoscleral donor rim in patients undergoing keratoplasty and evaluate clinical outcomes of eyes that received these contaminated donor tissues.

Methods: Patients who had optical keratoplasty between 2006 and 2016 and were found to have fungal-culture-positive donor rim were included. Microbiological and eye bank records were reviewed to determine the incidence of positive fungal rim cultures.