Tendências no transplante de córnea de 2001 a 2016 no Brasil

Authors :: Hirlana Gomes Almeida
Newton Kara-Junior
Richard Y Hida
Source :: Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, Issue: ahead, Published: 08 OCT 2018, Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia v.81 n.6 2018, Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia, Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia (CBO), instacron:CBO, Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, Iss 0 (2018), Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, Volume: 81, Issue: 6, Pages: 529-538, Published: 08 OCT 2018
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: GN1 Genesis Network, 2018.
Abstract: A retrospective and analytical study was conducted by using data from the National Transplantation System on 184,575 corneal transplantations performed between January 2001 and December 2016 in order to analyze thetrends in corneal transplantation from 2001 to 2016 in Brazil. The Cochran-Armitage test, analysis of variance, and Duncan’s multiple comparisons were used to verify the existence of trends, compare the mean values between regions, and verify the mean differences, respectively. A significance level of 5% was used for all tests. The analysis showed that there was a 2.4-fold increase in the number of corneal transplantations (from 6,193 [35.2 per million people (pmp)] to 14,641 [71 pmp]; p