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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-2-8
pubmed:abstractText
A 3-year retrospective study on the risk factors of positive donor rim cultures in penetrating keratoplasty was performed. One thousand and ninety-seven consecutive donor rim cultures were reviewed from the period between June 1990 and October 1993 to determine the rate of culture positivity. The sex, age, diabetes status, use of respirator at time of death, cause of death, harvesting technique, storage time, and corneal storage medium utilized for the donors with positive donor rim culture were compared to those for 100 randomly selected culture negative donor controls. Logistic analysis was performed to eliminate confounding effects. Forty-six of the 1,097 (4.19%) donor rim cultures were positive. We found an association between the in situ technique for donor harvesting and culture negativity (p = 0.03). None of the other donor characteristics was associated with culture positivity. None of the 46 recipients who received the positive culture corneas developed endophthalmitis. In situ cornea harvesting promotes less contamination than enucleation and enriched gentamicin and streptomycin storage medium may further decrease donor rim culture positivity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0277-3740
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
457-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Anti-Bacterial Agents, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Bacteriological Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Cefazolin, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Cephalosporins, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Cornea, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Culture Media, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Eye Banks, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Eye Enucleation, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Gentamicins, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Keratoplasty, Penetrating, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Microbial Sensitivity Tests, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Organ Preservation, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8536457-Tissue Donors
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Positive donor rim culture in penetrating keratoplasty.
pubmed:affiliation
Cornea Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't