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  5. FP0306 : Quality of Donor Corneal Tissues in an Eye Bank following HCRP and Voluntary Eye Donation (VED)

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Chief & Presenting Author: Dr.Arnab Kumar Garai

Co Author(s): Dr.Neeti Gupta, Dr.Sanjeev Kumar Mittal

Abstract

Study Design: Record based retrospective study.
Purpose: To assess the quality of Donor Corneal Tissues obtained through HCRP and VED.
Methods: Donor corneas retrieved during a period of over 3 years were included. Information about donors and slit-lamp assessment was documented.
Results: Out of 746 donors, 547 was through HCRP and 199 was through VED. Males and young donors were more common in HCRP. The median Death to preservation time of HCRP-MLC was significantly higher than the other groups (p-value < 0.0001). The HCRP-MLC group had more phakic donors, epithelial sloughing and endothelial cell density (p-value < 0.0001). The VED group had higher stromal edema and arcus. Better corneal tissue utilization rate was seen in HCRP-MLC group (p-value < 0.0001). OPK and DSEK was predominantly performed from the HCRP-MLC group, TPK from the VED group and most of the tissues used for medical education or discarded were from the HCRP-non-MLC group.
Conclusion: HCRP is better than VED.