Eye Bank

Recognized as one of the top centres of Excellence in Eye Banking by SightLife

Donor Corneas Harvested

Corneal Transplants Performed

The Ramayamma International Eye Bank (RIEB) is the largest provider of sight restoring corneas in India and a SightLife Center of Excellence in Eye Banking. Since its establishment in 1989, RIEB has greatly increased the collection of transplantable donor corneas and elevated eye banking performance standards in India and other parts of the developing world. As a leader in eye banking across south east Asia, RIEB has contributed significantly to the effective networking and proliferation of eye banks through promotion of community eye banking programs.

2018-2019

Indications for Corneal Transplantation @ LVPEI

Indications for Corneal Transplantation		2017	2018
1	Corneal Scarring	249	246
2	Microbial Keratitis	649	628
3	Regraft	503	580
4	Aphakic Corneal Edema	67	49
5	Pseudophakic Corneal Edema	633	693
6	Fuch’s Dystrophy	104	117
7	Keratoconus	156	133
8	Other degenerations or dystrophies	125	155
9	Mechanical or Chemical Trauma	18	21
10	Congenital opacities	13	10
11	Other causes of corneal opacification or distortion	533	446
Total:		3048	3078

Setting New Records

Ramayamma International Eye Bank achieved the milestone of collecting 76,000+ corneas since inception. Of these 40,600+ corneas were distributed for transplantation.

Testimonials

From 2016 to 2019, we performed more than 300 corneal transplant surgeries. In more than 90% of these cases, the surgeries have been successful with clear graft. The corneal tissues for these surgeries were provided to us by LVPEI. RIEB is truly a world class state-of-the-art Eye Bank facility which collects, processes and supplies excellent quality corneal tissues to numerous corneal surgeons across the country.

Dr Arjun Srirampur Anand Eye Institute, Hyderabad