Transplantation of ocular tissue from a donor with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Andrew B Tullo, Roger J Buckley, Tom Kelly, Mark W Head, Peter Bennett, W John Armitage, James W Ironside

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)645-9
Number of pages5
JournalClinical & Experimental Ophthalmology
Volume34
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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