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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2011 Feb 18;151(5):752–759.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2010.11.008

TABLE 2.

Autopsy Control and Keratoconus Patient Demographic Data for Quantitative Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

Autopsy Patient Data
Age (yrs) Gender Corneal Status Cause of Death Death to Preservation Time (hrs)
50 Male Normal Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 26
29 Female Normal Metastatic gall bladder carcinoma 15
84 Male Normal Coronary artery disease 36
58 Female Normal Metastatic gastric carcinoma 10
Mean 55 22
SD 23 12
Keratoconus Patient Data
Age (yrs) Gender Diagnosis Keratometry (D) Pachymetry (μm) Severity
26 Male Keratoconus 65 411 Severe
46 Female Keratoconus 70 277 Severe
26 Female Keratoconus 63 370 Severe
58 Female Keratoconus 65 323 Severe
23 Male Keratoconus 64 381 Severe
Mean 36 65 352
SD 15 3 53

D = diopters; SD = standard deviation.