Study reports on factors linked to failure of corneal transplants

Certain eye conditions appear to put patients at greater risk for having a failed cornea transplant, according the Cornea Donor Study (CDS), a multi-center clinical trial conducted by the National Eye Institute. The study concludes that patients with glaucoma and patients who had corneal swelling following an earlier cataract surgery were more likely to experience failure of the cornea transplant than were other patients in the study. The findings, reported by Alan Sugar, M.D., in the June issue of Ophthalmology, emerged from a five-year study of 1,090 individuals who had undergone cornea transplants. [read more...]