Purpose:
To define the epidemiological aspects of the patients submitted to keratoplasty in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and the main indications for this procedure.
Methods:
We conducted an observational, descriptive and retrospective study with the data of 1161 patients submitted to cornea transplantation from january 2008 to december 2010, at the Transplantation Center of Santa Catarina. The analyzed data were: age, gender, origin, transplant date, indication and transplanted eye.
Results:
The mean age was 45.51 years and men were more commonly operated. Keratoconus was the most common disease (36.09%), followed by graft failure (15.89%), leukoma (11.92%), bullous keratopathy (11.06%), dystrophy (7.77%), ulcer (5.36%), corneal perforation (5.27%), descemetocel (4.66%), herpetic keratitis (1.12%) and corneal ectasia (0.86%). The region with the greater number of cases was the Great Florianopolis (23.75%), with keratoconus as the main indication (30.91%). Leukoma and perforation were the mainly indication in patients under 10 years old, keratoconus in patients between 11 and 50 years old, graft failure between 51 and 60 years old and bullous keratopathy in patients under 61 years old.
Conclusion:
Keratoconus is the main indication for keratoplasty in our state, with the mean age of 31 years. Most of the patients were men and from the Great Florianopolis.
Cornea; Corneal transplantation; Keratoplasty; penetrating; Corneal disease; Keratoconus; Health profile
