Table 1.
Characteristics of human donor eyes
| Case# | Time (hours)
|
Age/race/sex | Primary cause of death | Medical history | Ocular diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMT | DET | |||||
| 1 | 8 | 4 | 70/CM | Pulmonary embolism | HTN, Cancer | Aged Control |
| 2 | 28 | 2.5 | 80/CM | COPD | COPD | Aged Control |
| 3 | 31 | 4 | 84/CM | Cardiac arrhythmia | CAD | Aged Control |
| 4* | 9 | 2 | 84/CM | Lung Cancer | Cancer | GA |
| 5 | NA | NA | 95/CM | Congestive heart failure | MI | GA |
| 6 | 42 | 3.5 | 69/CF | Subarachnoid | Pulmonary | GA |
| Hemorrhage | Fibrosis | |||||
| 7* | 9 | 6 | 88/CM | Congestive heart failure | CAD | GA |
| 8 | 26 | 7.5 | 79/CM | COPD | CHF, CAD | GA |
| 9 | 29 | 1 | 84/CF | Cardiac arrhythmia | CAD | Wet AMD |
| 10 | 29 | 5 | 81/CF | Myocardial Infarction | HTN | Wet AMD |
| 11 | 28 | 4 | 77/CF | GI Bleed | COPD, HTN | Wet AMD |
DET – Death to enucleation time, PMT – Postmortem time (death to fixation), C – Caucasian, M – Male, F – Female, AMD– Age-related macular degeneration, DM – diabetes mellitus, HTN – Hypertension, COPD – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, GA – Geographic atrophy, CAD-coronary artery disease, MI – Myocardial Infarction
NA- Not available
*
Patient followed clinically at Wilmer by Dr. Janet Sunness