title: [Evaluation of corneal tissue processed by a reference Eye Bank].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the quality of the corneas processed by Sorocaba Eye Bank (BOS) - SP and transplanted out of the Ophthalmology Hospital of Sorocaba (HOS), as well as the corneas that had re-entered in the BOS, being transplanted or not in the HOS, during the year of 2007.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ophthalmologists that transplanted corneas processed by BOS outside of the Ophthalmology Hospital of Sorocaba were contacted, as well as those who had used re-entried corneas, to collect the following information: period from eye enucleation until transplant, transparency of the donated tissue, time of transplant and primary failure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the year of 2007, Sorocaba Eye Bank distributed three hundred and ninety-two corneas for outside HOS. From these, six had returned to BOS and had been transplanted in the Ophthalmology Hospital of Sorocaba. From those, none was rejected; however, two presented some opacity in the visual axis. After attempt to congregate information regarding the 386 transplanted corneas outside HOS, data of only 48 keratoplasty were available. The average time from the enucleation until the keratoplasty was of 5.5 days (1-13 days), and of postoperative average follow-up, 9.8 months (4-15 months). Three corneas had developed primary failure; three presented opacity in the visual axis; one presented infectious keratitis, requiring therapeutic keratoplasty; a patient died and another one lost follow-up. The other 39 corneas did not present any problems until the time this study was ended.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Because of the difficulties to congregate informations of the patients transplanted in other hospitals, it is difficult to define the quality of the distributed corneas by Sorocaba Eye Bank. Thus, other analysis are necessary in order to define changes and new directions for future studies on selection and preservation of donated corneas.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Oftalmológico de Sorocaba, Sorocaba, SP, Brasil. reiceres@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Reinaldo Ferreira da
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Nathalie Urtiga de
authors.initials: NU
authors.lastname: Vargas
authors.forename: Guilherme Andrade
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: Mayana Lopes
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Freitas
authors.forename: Luciene Barbosa de
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Natália Pimentel
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Analisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raskin
authors.forename: Luis Felipe Sampaio Queiroz da
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Silveira
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology*; D016039:Corneal Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005125:Eye Banks / Q000458:organization & administration; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000453:epidemiology; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D009885:Ophthalmology; D011786:Quality Control; D013997:Time Factors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data