Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency-Demography and Underlying Causes.

Purpose: To determine the demographic features of patients affected by limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD), and to identify the underlying causes of LSCD.

Design: Retrospective, multicenter case series.

Setting: Two large tertiary care ophthalmology hospitals.

Outcome of cataract surgery following simple limbal epithelial transplantation for lime injury-induced limbal stem cell deficiency.

A 19-year-old woman presented to us after being diagnosed elsewhere with right eye total limbal stem cell deficiency resulting from a lime burn. She was advised to undergo limbal stem cell transplantation, but failed to immediately do so. Two years later, she underwent cultivated limbal epithelial transplantation (CLET).