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Corneal Epithelial Rejection after Allograft Conjunctival Transplantation for Limbal Papilloma

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The authors report a case of typical corneal epithelial rejection two months after allogenic limbal-conjunctival graft for a recurrent limbal-conjunctival papilloma in a 62- year-old female patient. The HLA donor-recipient pair was haploidentical (50% identity). This observation suggests a clear conjunctival epithelial transdifferentiation onto corneal epithelium. This is the first report, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, of allograft conjunctival transplantation for this disease and of corneal epithelial rejection after such a procedure. In this case, there was no rejection of the conjunctival graft, and corneal rejection was successfully treated with oral prednisone and topical 1% prednisolone.

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  1. Cornea Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital de Clinicos de Poroto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    Francisco José de Lima Bocaccio, Sérgio Kwitko, Daniel Fridman, Mauro Antonio Chies & Juliana Bocaccio Yaluk

  2. Cornea Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    Francisco José de Lima Bocaccio & Jussara Ribeiro Duarte

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de Lima Bocaccio, F.J., Kwitko, S., Fridman, D., Duarte, J.R., Chies, M.A., Yaluk, J.B. (1997). Corneal Epithelial Rejection after Allograft Conjunctival Transplantation for Limbal Papilloma. In: Lass, J.H. (eds) Advances in Corneal Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5389-2_7

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