Total Penetrating Keratoplasty: Indications, Therapeutic Approach, and Long-Term Follow-Up

Table 4

Postoperative complications of total penetrating keratoplasty (% in brackets).

Primary cause of ocular disease	Infection Total n (%) ()	Autoimmune Total n (%) ()	Trauma Total n (%) ()	Other Total n (%) ()
Complication rate
Persistent epithelial defect	13 (59.1)	9 (90)	9 (75)	3 (100)
Reinfection	15 (68.2)	3 (30)	1 (8.3)	0
Graft melting	8 (36.4)	7 (70)	2 (16.7)	0
Graft rejection	5 (100)	0	0	0
Glaucoma or ocular hypertension	4 (18.2)	4 (40)	6 (50)	1 (33.3)