Research Article
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) |
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