Novel Use of Telemedicine for Corneal Tissue Evaluation in Eye Banking: Establishing a Standardized Approach for the Remote Evaluation of Donor Corneas for Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the feasibility of using telemedicine consultations in the evaluation of recovered donor corneas for transplant suitability.

Methods

This study aims to establish and test the minimum imaging requirements for telemedical consultations of corneal tissue by remote eye bank medical directors. Digital images from the slit lamp, optical coherence tomography, and/or specular microscope were assembled into telemedical consults and emailed to 4 eye bank medical directors (M.A.T., J.W., C.S.S., N.K.R.). Feedback on the minimum image requirements for each corneal finding was collected. After establishing a standardized imaging and presentation protocol, test cases were presented to the medical directors to examine the validity of these remote consults. To establish

SUBMITTER: Alabi RO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6403003 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature