6. EYE BANK:
It is a non-profit community
organization which deals with collection, storage and
distribution of cornea for the purpose of corneal
grafting, research and supply of other eye tissues for
other purposes.
7. • 1906: Edmund zirm- 1st successful corneal transplantation
• 1937: V P Filatow- father of modern eye banking
• 1949- 1st eye bank in India (Dr. Muthaih)- Chennai
• 1961: Eye bank association of America.
• 1974- Mc karey and Kauffman (MK) medium.
8. Functions of eye bank
• Promotion of eye donation
• Registration
• Collection
• Receiving and processing
• Preservation
• Distribution
• Research activities
10. EYE BANK PERSONNEL:
• Eye bank in charge
• Eye bank technician
• Clerk- cum store keeper
• MSW or PRO
• Driver cum projectionist
11. “The Transplantation of human organs act, 1994”
• Written informed consent
• Relatives decision
12. FACTS ABOUT EYE DONATION
• Within 6hours of death
• Care of eyes to be taken after death
• It takes 15-20min to collect
• Eye donation of a person- gives sight to 2 blind persons
• Each cornea-can be utilized in 5 cases.
• Never bought/ sold
• Never refused
• Cant be removed from living person inspite of their consent
13. EYE DONATION
Any person
Any age
Any religion …………………………… can pledge to donate eyes..!!!
Relatives can pledge too…
14. CONTRAINDICATIONS
SYSTEMIC
• Death due to unknown cause
• AIDS
• Rabies
• Active viral hepatitis
• Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
• SSPE
• PMLE
• Reyes syndrome
• Leukemia/lymphoma/ lympho
sarcoma
OCULAR
• Retinoblastoma
• Active conjunctivitis/
iritis/uveitis/vitreitis/retinitis
• Keratoconus
• Central opacities
• Pterygium
• Prior refractory procedures( radial
keratotomy scar/ lamellar inserts)
15. Procedure of eye donation:
• Tissue retrieval-- Enucleation / insitu corneo-scleral excision
• Donor blood sample-- HIV ,HBV,HCV,HTLV-I &II, Syphilis.
• corneal evaluation---EXCELLENT , VERY GOOD, GOOD, FAIR,POOR
• Storage--- Short term
Intermediate
Long term
Very long term
16. storage
Short term intermediate Long term
Very long
term
2-3 days
Moist chamber
M-K medium
7-10 days
K-sol, dexsol,
optisol
30 days
Organ culture medium
MEM
1 year
cryopreservation