Published in American Journal of Transplantation · View the paper (DOI)
A new study suggests that donor and recipient gender incompatibility may lead to poorer corneal transplant outcomes for women. Incompatible grafts were found to fail or be rejected more frequently in men-to-female mismatched transplants, highlighting the importance of gender matching in improving patient success rates.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Corneal transplants, men and women don't see eye to eye University of Liverpool · Jul 14, 2016 · first to report
- In corneal transplantation, men and women don't see eye to eye Wiley · Jul 14, 2016