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- The Australian Corneal Graft Registry collected and analyzed data from 53 surgeons on 322 graft recipients over 18 months, focusing on conditions like keratoconus and corneal opacities.
- Key risk factors identified include prior sensitization to HLA antigens, corneal vascularization, inflammation, and history of elevated intraocular pressure.
- The registry aims to facilitate actuarial graft survival analysis for surgeons and enhance overall patient and graft monitoring within the Australian ophthalmic community.
Article Abstract
In the Australian Corneal Graft Registry's first 18 months of operation, May 1985 to November 1986, data supplied by 53 surgeons relating to 322 graft recipients have been entered and analysed with respect to: the most common presenting diseases (primarily keratoconus, bullous keratopathy and corneal opacities), risk factors (especially prior sensitisation to HLA antigens, corneal vascularisation, past or present anterior segment inflammation and history of raised intraocular pressure [IOP]), donor and recipient sex, cause of donor death, storage procedures for donor eyes, operative procedures accompanying the grafts themselves, and preliminary indications of overall graft survival by actuarial analysis. It is hoped that the establishment of this Registry will not only reinforce the use of actuarial graft survival analysis as the method of choice for transplantation surgeons wishing to monitor the survival of their patients and grafts, but will also provide a useful service for the Australian ophthalmic community in general.
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