Cornea transplant quality may not differ in diabetic vs. non-diabetic donors

DENVER — There may be no difference between the cornea transplant quality of a diabetic donor vs. a non-diabetic donor, according to a presentation here.In a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting, Yicheng Chen, MD, and colleagues compared endothelial cell density in 1,486 diabetic corneas and 2,488 non-diabetic corneas in a retrospective study.