Risk factors influencing survival of acellular porcine corneal stroma in infectious keratitis : a prospective clinical study

BACKGROUND: A worldwide lack of donor corneas demands the bioengineered corneas be developed as an alternative. The primary objective of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of acellular porcine corneal stroma (APCS) transplantation in various types of infectious keratitis and identify risk factors that may increase APCS graft failure.

METHODS: In this prospective interventional study, 39 patients with progressive infectious keratitis underwent therapeutic lamellar keratoplasty using APCS and were followed up for 12 months. Data collected for analysis included preoperative characteristics, visual acuity, graft survival and complications. Graft survival was evaluated by the Kaplan-Meier method and compared with the log-rank test.

RESULTS: The percentage of eyes that had a visual acuity of 20/40 or better increased from 10.3% preoperatively to 51.2% at 12 months postoperatively. Twelve patients (30.8%) experienced graft failure within the follow-up period. The primary reasons given for graft failure was noninfectious graft melting (n = 5), and the other causes included recurrence of primary infection (n = 4) and extensive graft neovascularization (n = 3). No graft rejection was observed during the follow-up period. A higher relative risk (RR) of graft failure was associated with herpetic keratitis (RR = 8.0, P = 0.046) and graft size larger than 8 mm (RR = 6.5, P < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS: APCS transplantation is an alternative treatment option for eyes with medically unresponsive infectious keratitis. Despite the efficacy of therapeutic lamellar keratoplasty with APCS, to achieve a good prognosis, restriction of surgical indications, careful selection of patients and postoperative management must be emphasized. Trial registration Prospective Study of Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty Using Acellular Porcine Cornea, NCT03105466. Registered 31 August 2016, ClinicalTrails.gov.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Journal of translational medicine - 17(2019), 1 vom: 30. Dez., Seite 434

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Saiqun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Li [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Lulu [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Yuqing [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Bowen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Yichen [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Jin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acellular porcine corneal stroma
Clinical Study
Infectious keratitis
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Therapeutic lamellar keratoplasty

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 09.09.2020

Date Revised 09.09.2020

published: Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03105466

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12967-019-02192-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM304997625