HIV and banked fascia lata.
Concern over the transmission of communicable diseases through donor tissue has recently increased. Nine hundred and fifty-nine pieces of banked homologous irradiated fascia lata have been distributed to ophthalmic plastic surgeons nationwide over the past 3 years since the establishment of the Wills Eye Hospital Fascia Lata Bank. Safeguards taken against the transmission of disease include strict donor selection; negative antibody testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), rapid plasma reagin (RPR), and hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg); heat treatment; and radiation sterilization with 4 million rads of cobalt-60 gamma radiation. To date, no cases have been reported of the transmission of HIV through surgical implantation of banked irradiated homologous fascia lata.
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Wills Eye Hospital Fascia Lata Bank, Department of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107.
D005125:Eye Banks; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery; D005206:Fascia Lata / Q000382:microbiology*; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods; D014019:Tissue Donors
D015483:HIV Antibodies