Abstract

The cornea transplant is considered the most frequently performed type of transplant in the world, with a demand that has been increasing in recent years. An observational descriptive study was conducted, focusing on the ocular tissue extracted from cadaveric donors from January 2019 to December 2021 at the Red Cross Eye Bank in Medellin, Colombia. This is the first epidemiological characterization of corneal donor tissues within the eye banks of our city, where high rates of violence-related deaths explain that tissue donors are mostly young individuals. This, in turn, results in excellent counts of endothelial cells and tissue viability in their microscopic studies. Additionally, there are lower rates of discarded tissues compared to similar studies.

中文翻译：

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哥伦比亚麦德林市组织中心角膜捐赠者的特征

摘要

角膜移植被认为是世界上最常进行的移植类型，近年来需求不断增加。进行了一项观察性描述性研究，重点关注 2019 年 1 月至 2021 年 12 月在哥伦比亚麦德林红十字眼库从尸体捐赠者身上提取的眼组织。这是我们城市眼库中角膜捐献组织的首次流行病学特征，该市与暴力相关的死亡率很高，这说明组织捐献者大多是年轻人。这反过来又导致在显微镜研究中获得出色的内皮细胞计数和组织活力。此外，与类似研究相比，废弃组织的比率较低。