The tissue of the cornea from one donor was divided into three parts to repair and replace diseased areas of three patients (two adults and one child).
All of the surgical procedures were successfully performed in one day. Follow-ups at three months showed good results with all of the recipient patients.
"Our strategy of using a single donor corneal tissue for multiple patients opens up the possibility of optimal use of available donor corneal tissue and will reduce the backlog of patients with corneal blindness in countries in which there is a dearth of good-quality donor corneal tissue," the authors, Rasik B. Vajpayee, MS, FRCS and colleagues wrote.
As the authors' subtitle of their article sums it up, this is a "A New Concept for Corneal Transplantation Surgery."
