Tissue Banking: Its Significance in Modern Medicine

Tissue banking

In the United States, organ and tissue procurement has been organized in such a way so as to maximize availability in an efficient fashion that is fair to both donor and recipient. There is a growing cooperation between organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and tissue recovery organizations to facilitate meeting the requirements of both organ and tissue procurement. Successful tissue preservat...

How Politics Shaped Modern Banking in Early Modern England: Rethinking the Nature of Representative Democracy, Public Debt, and Modern Banking

The recent sovereign debt crisis raises a debate on whether the cancelation of sovereign debt is compatible with democracy. Scholars opposed to the cancelation of sovereign debt refer to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the British government began to make the people as a whole liable for the obligations incurred by their government. These scholars argue that this commitment formed the...

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Current trends in tissue banking.

Tissue and cell therapy is a field in which intense worldwide exchange is taking place. The European Community has therefore guaranteed to achieve the highest possible level of protection to safeguard public health regarding quality and safety of tissues and cells. The relevant Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of The Council on Setting Standards of ‘Quality and Safety for the...

Cardiovascular tissue banking in Europe

INTRODUCTION In the past 50 years, human cardiovascular tissue allografts, also called homografts, have been implanted into patients with different valvular diseases. The use of these allografts and  the number of cardiovascular tissue banks and their respective techniques increased. We conducted a survey to establish the quantity of allografts processed, and issued by, European tissue banks. T...