A new study conducted by the University of Liverpool has found gender matching may be helpful in reducing failure and rejection risks in patients undergoing corneal transplantation.
The study, recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation, studied over 18,000 U.K. corneal transplant patients and found a higher proportion of male to female transplants had failed or were rejected over a five-year time, compared to gender-matched transplants. Additionally, the effect of gender matching was especially evident in patients with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy.
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Source: University of Liverpool