Use of cryopreserved donor corneal tissues first time in India for therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty during COVID-19 pandemic – A case series
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused restricted eye retrieval leading to acute scarcity of donor corneas. Nine patients with perforated corneas needed urgent donor tissues where we used 10 cryopreserved corneal tissues for therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty (TPK). Repeat TPK was done in...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2021-01-01
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Series: | Indian Journal of Ophthalmology |
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Online Access: | http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2021;volume=69;issue=9;spage=2527;epage=2530;aulast=Mane |