Protecting the Health and Safety of Cell and Tissue Donors. [PDF]
ISBT Sci Ser, 2015 AbstractCentres involved with collecting the starting material for cell and tissue therapies are obligated to protect the recipient's and donor's health and safety. All donors face risks during and after the collection which can be minimized by pre‐screening donors and excluding those that the collection would place at increased risk of physical harm ...
Stroncek DF, England L.
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COVID-19 positivity rate in corneal tissue donors - A cause for concern! [PDF]
Indian J Ophthalmol, 2021 Purpose: To determine the postmortem positivity for COVID-19 among voluntary eye donors who had been certified to have died of non-COVID-19 causes.
D'Souza S +7 more
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Comparison of Total Immunoglobulin G in Ante- and Postmortem Blood Samples from Tissue Donors. [PDF]
Transfus Med Hemother, 2021 Background: A serology testing for infectious diseases (HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis) is mandatory in tissue donors. In many donors postmortem blood is the only sample available. Even though serological tests and nucleic acid amplification tests (NAT)
Larscheid G +6 more
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Retrospective study of COVID-19 seroprevalence among tissue donors at the onset of the outbreak before implementation of strict lockdown measures in France. [PDF]
Cell Tissue Bank, 2021 Background The COVID-19 pandemic has altered organ and tissue donations as well as transplantation practices. SARS-CoV-2 serological tests could help in the selection of donors. We assessed COVID-19 seroprevalence in a population of tissue donors, at the
Germain N +6 more
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Probability of Viremia with HBV, HCV, HIV, and HTLV among Tissue Donors in the United States [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 BACKGROUND Tissue-banking organizations in the United States have introduced various review and testing procedures to reduce the risk of the transmission of viral infections from tissue grafts.
Shimian Zou +3 more
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Screening of post-mortem tissue donors for Coxiella burnetii infection after large outbreaks of Q fever in The Netherlands [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2014 BackgroundAfter the largest outbreaks of Q fever ever recorded in history occurred in the Netherlands, concern arose that Coxiella may be transmitted via donated tissues of latent or chronically infected donors.
Marja J. van Wijk +5 more
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Electron donors in tissues. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1968 John A. McLaughlin
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Incidence of clostridial contamination in donors’ musculoskeletal tissue [PDF]
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, 2003 Reports of infection by Clostridium sordellii associated with allograft transplantation have generated considerable interest. We report our experience in recognising clostridial contamination in cadaver donors of musculoskeletal tissue. Tissues obtained from 795 consecutive donors were excised using standard surgical techniques.
Theodore I. Malinin +4 more
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Declining trend of HTLV-1 among organ/ tissue donors in Iranian Tissue Bank between 2014–2021 [PDF]
RetrovirologyBackground Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type-1 (HTLV-1) infection is associated with serious disorders, including Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV-1–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).
Arash Letafati +11 more
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Implementation Intentions as a Strategy to Increase the Notification Rate of Potential Ocular Tissue Donors by Nurses: A Clustered Randomized Trial in Hospital Settings [PDF]
Nursing Research and Practice, 2014 Aim. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact, among nurses in hospital settings, of a questionnaire-based implementation intentions intervention on notification of potential ocular tissue donors to donation stakeholders. Methods.
Frédéric Douville +3 more
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