{"id":8937,"date":"2025-10-21T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:10:39","slug":"organ-donation-and-tissue-banking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/organ-donation-and-tissue-banking\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ Donation and Tissue Banking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Organ Donation and Tissue Banking<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: <span> <\/span>1\u2022<span> <\/span>American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) \u2013 Standards for Tissue Banking, 15th Edition (2025)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span> 2\u2022 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) \u2013 Donor Heart Selection: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Providers (2023)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014 Key Facts<\/div>\n<div><span> 1. Life-saving purpose:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Organ and tissue donation allows one donor to save or improve the lives of up to 8 people and help 50 more through tissue transplantation.<\/div>\n<div><span> 2. Vital organs \u2014 heart, liver, kidneys, lungs:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Can survive only 4\u20136 minutes without blood supply.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Must be retrieved from brain-dead donors maintained on mechanical life-support systems (ventilation and circulatory support).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Transplantation must occur as soon as possible \u2014 ideally within a few hours after organ retrieval, during the same surgical session.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 These organs cannot be stored in any bank \u2014 they must be transplanted immediately after donation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 3. Tissues \u2014 valves, tendons, corneas, bones, skin:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Can be recovered after cardiac death, as they require much less oxygen.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Remain viable for 12\u201324 hours post-mortem if the body is cooled quickly.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 4. Tissue banking (not organ banking):<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Banks store non-vital tissues only such as valves, corneas, and bones \u2014 not living organs.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Retrieved tissues are sterilized, tested, and cryopreserved at \u2013150\u00b0C to \u2013196\u00b0C.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 They remain usable for 5\u201310 years in certified tissue banks.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 5. Example \u2013 The Ross Procedure:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 In the Ross operation, the patient\u2019s pulmonary valve replaces the diseased aortic valve.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 The removed pulmonary valve is then replaced with a human homograft (donated valve) retrieved within 12\u201324 hours after death,<\/span><\/div>\n<div>or with a bovine (xenograft) conduit when no homograft is available.<\/div>\n<div><span> 6. Summary:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 The \u201c12\u201324-hour rule\u201d applies only to non-vital tissues (e.g., valves, corneas, tendons).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Vital organs must come from brain-dead donors on life support and be transplanted within a few hours during surgery \u2014 they are never stored long-term.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aatb.org\/standards\">http:\/\/www.aatb.org\/standards<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10284152\/\">https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10284152\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organ Donation and Tissue Banking Source: 1\u2022 American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) \u2013 Standards for Tissue Banking, 15th Edition (2025) 2\u2022 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) \u2013 Donor Heart Selection: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Providers (2023) \u2014 Key Facts 1. 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