Current eye banking practices allow for safe provision and distribution of tissue for corneal transplantation, according to one speaker at the virtual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
“With proper protocols in place, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from donor corneas is negligible,” Diego Ponzin, MD, medical director of Veneto Eye Bank, Venice, Italy, said. “In the very few corneas of asymptomatic donors that were found positive by postmortem nasopharyngeal swabs, we only found traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, without the capability of transmitting
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