Bone Allograft in the UK: Perceptions and Realities

Bone allografts are widely used in the UK in joint revision surgery. Despite this widespread usage, there remain concerns among the surgical community regarding the safety of allografts, in terms of the risk of transmission of infection, together with a persistent misconception that allografts are i...

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Autores principales: Lomas, Richard, Chandrasekar, Akila, Board, Timothy N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23813163
http://dx.doi.org/10.5301/hipint.5000018
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description Bone allografts are widely used in the UK in joint revision surgery. Despite this widespread usage, there remain concerns among the surgical community regarding the safety of allografts, in terms of the risk of transmission of infection, together with a persistent misconception that allografts are in limited availability. In this paper we discuss the precautions taken to ensure that allografts are safe, and review the residual risks. We also demonstrate that the availability of allograft in the UK, both actual and potential, greatly exceeds the current clinical demand.
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spelling pubmed-61598362018-10-11 Bone Allograft in the UK: Perceptions and Realities Lomas, Richard Chandrasekar, Akila Board, Timothy N. Hip Int Review Bone allografts are widely used in the UK in joint revision surgery. Despite this widespread usage, there remain concerns among the surgical community regarding the safety of allografts, in terms of the risk of transmission of infection, together with a persistent misconception that allografts are in limited availability. In this paper we discuss the precautions taken to ensure that allografts are safe, and review the residual risks. We also demonstrate that the availability of allograft in the UK, both actual and potential, greatly exceeds the current clinical demand. SAGE Publications 2018-01-24 2013-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6159836/ /pubmed/23813163 http://dx.doi.org/10.5301/hipint.5000018 Text en © 2013 SAGE Publications http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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