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Transplantation of ocular tissue from a donor with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Author(s) -
Tullo Andrew B,
Buckley Roger J,
Kelly Tom,
Head Mark W,
Bennett Peter,
Armitage W John,
Ironside James W
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01308.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , surgery , disease , corneal transplantation , biopsy , pathology
One definite, one probable and several possible transmissions of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) have followed corneal transplantation. We report an incident in the UK in 1997 in which both corneas and scleras from a donor, subsequently confirmed to have had sCJD, were transplanted. The final clinical outcome for two surviving recipients is still not yet known.