| EYE TISSUE
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Donor Tissue: Eye
Transplanted Tissue: Sclera |
| Typical Applications: Repair eyelid, reinforce wall of eye.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents blindness, restores vision.
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Donor Tissue: Eye
Transplanted Tissue: Cornea |
| Typical Applications: Replace diseased or damaged cornea.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents blindness, restores vision.
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| BONE TISSUE
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Donor Tissue: Humerus
Transplanted Tissue: Whole, Proximal, Distal, Shaft |
| Typical Applications: Reconstruction related to trauma, tumors, degenerative diseases, and fractures.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents amputation accelerates, promotes, and allows healing.
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Donor Tissue: Humerus
Transplanted Tissue: Humeral Head |
| Typical Applications: Total hip revision.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores mobility.
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Donor Tissue: Femur
Transplanted Tissue: Whole, Proximal, Distal, Shaft |
| Typical Applications: Reconstruction related to trauma, tumors, degenerative diseases, and fractures.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents amputation accelerates, promotes, and allows healing.
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Donor Tissue: Femur
Transplanted Tissue: Femoral Head |
| Typical Applications: Reconstruction of damaged acetabulum, supplement for small defects.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores mobility.
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Donor Tissue: Femur
Transplanted Tissue: Dowel |
| Typical Applications: Cervical spinal fusion.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents collapse of bone, reduces pain, reduces chance of nerve damage.
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Donor Tissue: Femur
Transplanted Tissue: Cancellous |
| Typical Applications: Filling defects, augments prosthetic device implant.
Benefits to Recipients: Accelerates, promotes, and allows healing.
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Donor Tissue: Tibia
Transplanted Tissue: Whole, Proximal, Distal, Shaft |
| Typical Applications: Reconstruction related to trauma, tumors, degenerative diseases, and fractures.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents amputation accelerates, promotes, and allows healing.
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Donor Tissue: Tibia
Transplanted Tissue: Cortical strut |
| Typical Applications: Augments large grafts and prosthetic implants.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores mobility, promotes healing.
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Donor Tissue: Fibula
Transplanted Tissue: Fibular Shaft |
| Typical Applications: Repair of traumatic bone loss.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores mobility, promotes healing.
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Donor Tissue: Ilia
Transplanted Tissue: Iliac crest wedge, ilium strip |
| Typical Applications: Spinal fusion.
Benefits to Recipients: Prevents further collapse of bone, reduces pain, reduces chance of nerve damage.
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Donor Tissue: Ilia
Transplanted Tissue: Cortical cancellous |
| Typical Applications: Filling defects, augments prosthetic device implant.
Benefits to Recipients: Accelerates, promotes, and allows healing.
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Donor Tissue: Acetabulum
Transplanted Tissue: Acetabulum |
| Typical Applications: Acetabular reconstruction.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores mobility.
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Donor Tissue: Rib
Transplanted Tissue: Rib |
| Typical Applications: Mandible repair augment as a strut graft.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores normal facial appearance.
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| CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUES
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Donor Tissue: Heart Valves
Transplanted Tissue: Aortic and Pulmonary Heart Valve |
| Typical Applications: Replacement for damaged heart valves.
Benefits to Recipients: No long-term anticoagulant therapy. Almost no rejection. Allows children to grow into graft (no second surgery for size). Graft doesn't calcify.
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Donor Tissue: Saphenous Valves
Transplanted Tissue: Saphenous Vein |
| Typical Applications: CABG, below knee vascularization.
Benefits to Recipients: Vascularization, prevents amputation.
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Donor Tissue: Thoracic Aorta
Transplanted Tissue: Thoracic Aorta |
| Typical Applications: Aortic patch grafts.
Benefits to Recipients: Superior to synthetic materials.
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| CONNECTIVE TISSUES
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Donor Tissue: Patellar Tendon
Transplanted Tissue: Patellar Tendon |
| Typical Applications: Replace ACL, PCL.
Benefits to Recipients: Returns mobility, restores independence in activities of daily living.
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Donor Tissue: Achilles' Tendon
Transplanted Tissue: Achilles' Tendon |
| Typical Applications: Replace PCL, used as rotator cuff, replace Achilles' tendon.
Benefits to Recipients: Returns mobility, restores independence in activities of daily living.
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Donor Tissue: Cartilage
Transplanted Tissue: Cartilage |
| Typical Applications: Repair congenital and traumatic facial deformity
Benefits to Recipients: Restores normal facial appearance.
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Donor Tissue: Fascia Lata
Transplanted Tissue: Fascia Lata |
| Typical Applications: Used as tendon to repair injury.
Benefits to Recipients: Returns mobility, restores independence in activities of daily living.
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Donor Tissue: Rotator Cuff
Transplanted Tissue: Rotator Cuff |
| Typical Applications: Shoulder repair.
Benefits to Recipients: Independence in ADL's, mobility, and decreases joint pain, i.e. hip, knee, joint, wrist.
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| OTHER TISSUES
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Donor Tissue: Nerve
Transplanted Tissue: Femoral, Sural Nerve |
| Typical Applications: Neurosurgery in wrist.
Benefits to Recipients: Restores feeling and function of the hand.
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Donor Tissue: Pericardium
Transplanted Tissue: Pericardium |
| Typical Applications: Neurosurgery (as alternative to using dura mater).
Benefits to Recipients: Protective covering replacement.
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Donor Tissue: Skin
Transplanted Tissue: Skin |
| Typical Applications: Grafts for burn victims.
Benefits to Recipients: Promotes healing, natural barrier to infection.
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These examples are not meant to be all-inclusive.
This fact sheet prepared by Acorn, a national service provider to the donation and transplant community.
