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The data were collected and descriptively analyzed to characterize the etiology of corneal blindness and to analyze the risk factors for postoperative immune rejection after corneal transplantation using logistic regression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The mean age of the patients who underwent corneal transplantation was 55.90\u202f\u00b1\u202f0.80\u202fyears, and there were more male patients than female patients with corneal blindness. Infectious keratitis (41.1%) was reported as the leading cause of corneal blindness, and penetrating corneal transplantation was the main surgical procedure for the recovery of sight. Preoperative corneal vascularization and penetrating corneal graft rejection were identified as risk factors for immune rejection of corneal grafts. The preoperative corneal vascularization was performed (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.044, OR\u202f=\u202f2.607). Penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) was performed (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.024, OR\u202f=\u202f1.953), and deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty was also performed (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.801, OR\u202f=\u202f1.088). Viral infections (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001, OR\u202f=\u202f16.871) were the major risk factor for preoperative corneal neovascularization (CNV) compared to other etiologies, such as fungal infections (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001, OR\u202f=\u202f0.018), mechanical ocular trauma (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001, OR\u202f=\u202f0.034), immune keratitis (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.023, OR\u202f=\u202f0.152), and endothelial dysfunction (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001, OR\u202f=\u202f0.054).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Infectious keratitis was identified as the major cause of corneal blindness in the southern Liaoning region over the past 5\u202fyears. Penetrating keratoplasty and preoperative corneal vascularization were the risk factors for corneal graft rejection. In addition, virus-derived keratitis was considered to be the main risk factor for corneal neovascularization, and deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty was not found to have an effect on corneal graft rejection in this study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmed.2024.1517198","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,8]],"date-time":"2025-01-08T01:23:10Z","timestamp":1736299390000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Analysis of the relevant factors for corneal graft rejection in the southern Liaoning region from 2019 to 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