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There has been an increase in the demand for allograft bone in recentyears. The Odense University Hospital bone bank has been in function since1990,and this paper outlines our results during the 10 year period 1990–1999.Potential donors were screened by contemporary banking techniques which includea social history, donor serum tests for HIV, hepatitis B and C, and graftmicrobiology. The bones were stored at −80 °C. No typeofsecondary sterilisation was made. 423 femoral heads were approved and donatedto300 patients,1–6 heads/operation. The allografts have been used mainly toreconstruct defects at revision hip arthroplasty (34%), and for fracturesurgery(24%). 7 % of all transplanted patients were reoperated because of infection.Inthe hip revision group the infection rate was 4 %. There were no cases ofdisease transmission. During the 10 year period there was a change in theclinical use of the allografts. In the first years the allografts were mainlyused for spinal fusion surgery, but today the majority are used in hip revisionand fracture surgery. The clinical results correspond to those reported inlarger international series.
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Nielsen, H.T., Larsen, S., Andersen, M. et al. Bone bank service in Odense, Denmark. Audit of the first ten years with bone banking at the Department of Orthopaedics, Odense University Hospital. Cell Tissue Banking 2, 179–183 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020162323539
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