Keratoplasty in Hungary.
Oftalmologia
; 53(4): 123-6, 2009.
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The first keratoplasty was performed in Hungary in 1909, but the transplantations were started in large numbers after the Second World War in Debrecen. Since 1992 a National Keratoplasty Register is functioning at the Department of Ophthalmology Debrecen. The present paper gives an overview on the current status of keratoplasty in Hungary based on the data of this Register. The number of corneal transplantations more than doubled in the past two decades. In the past 3 years (2005 to 2008) the number of transplantation seemed to stabilize around a bit more than 700. The ratio of preserved corneas disclosed a constant increase. The turning point was 1997, few years after the establishment of the Debrecen Eye Bank in 1994, when more preserved corneas were transplanted than fresh ones. The law regulating the procurement and the transplantation of corneas in our country is based on presumed consent and explicit objection which is the better type of regulation for the performance of keratoplasties in large numbers. The number of corneal transplantations in Hungary in the past decades was similar to the figures of industrial countries.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transplante de Córnea
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Doenças da Córnea
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Bancos de Olhos
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2009
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Article