Worldwide, corneas are the most frequently transplanted tissue. However, because of rapid advances, the long-developed technique of complete transplantation, i.e. penetrating keratorplasty (PK) is no longer necessary in many instances.
Dr Donald Tan from the Singapore National Eye Centre and Professor John Dart, from the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the University College in London, and their team describe the latest advances in corneal transplantation in The Lancet's third paper in the ophthalmology series.
In 2010, over 42,000 cornea transplants were carried out in the USA, in comparison with 12,600 solid-organ transplants in 2008 that include kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, heart, and intestine transplants, whilst in the UK, doctors performed 3,565 corneal, 2,671 kidney, and 689 liver transplants in 2010 and 2011.
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