title: What tissue bankers should know about the use of allograft blood vessels.
abstract: Vascular allografts have been used by surgeons with varying levels of enthusiasm over the last 100 years, to treat a wide variety of vascular conditions. This article reviews the history of vascular allografts, the current indications for use, and the background to current retrieval, processing and cryopreservation techniques.
authors.affiliation: Sheffield Vascular Institute, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK. dominic.dodd@sth.nhs.uk
authors.forename: P Dominic F
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Dodd
mesh_terms: D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000637:transplantation*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D016491:Peripheral Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000639:trends*