RTI Biologics Sees Expanded Surgeon User Base of Fresh OC Allografts

RTI Biologics, Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq:RTIX), the Florida-based processor of orthopedic, dental, hernia and other biologic implants, today announced the company is seeing expansion of its user base of RTI’s fresh-stored osteochondral (OC) allografts since its first implant in May. To date, more ...

AlloSource Chosen as Healthcare Finalist in 2009 'Top Companies'

...non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures, announced today th...ality. This allowed AlloSource to provide 10% more allografts in 2008. Additionally, AlloSource processed more t...recise bone, skin, soft-tissue and custom-machined allografts for use in a host of life-saving and life-enhancin...

C O R R E C T I O N -- Osteotech, Inc.

...1 Hybrid/Synthetic 647 727 1,395 1,371 Traditional Tissue 5,443 5,250 10,720 10,360 Spinal allografts 1,862 2,286 3,742 4,536 Client Services 255 2,397 1,888 4,821 Other Product Lines 456 ...

Osteotech Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...1 Hybrid/Synthetic 647 727 1,395 1,371 Traditional Tissue 5,443 5,250 10,720 10,360 Spinal allografts 1,862 2,286 3,742 4,536 Client Services 255 2,397 1,888 4,821 Other Product Lines 456 ...

LifeNet Health Launches Sports Medicine Bio-Implants

... physicians another alternative in repairing patient injuries. KinetiGraft Tendon and Triple Bundle Tendon are pre-constructed, size specific, sterile allografts that can be used in the reconstruction of either the anterior or posterior cruciate ligament, as well as augmenting tendon instability. The new Rotato...

Los Angeles Area Non-Profit OneLegacy Grows Into World's Largest Tissue Recovery Organization

...from deceased donors at hospitals, coroner offices and funeral homes, and then distributes the recovered tissue to large "processors" that prepare the allografts for medical application. Among OneLegacy's partners are Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF), Tissue Banks International (TBI), CryoLife and RT...

Early Liver Transplantation Regardless of Donor Type Increases Long-term Survival

...donor organs, as well as deceased donor organs that are both low and high donor risk index. They concluded that living donor and high donor risk index allografts offer the most benefit to those with a mid-Meld score (between 11 and 24) but is dependent on early timing of transplant and should be used early to d...

Osteotech Reports 2008 Second Quarter Diluted Earnings Per Share of $.10 on Revenues of $27.6 Million

... Hybrid/Synthetic 727 408 1,371 641 Traditional Tissue 5,250 4,558 10,360 9,169 Spinal allografts 2,286 3,221 4,536 6,009 Client Services 2,397 1,944 4,821 3,872 Other Product Lines ...

Gender Plays Role in Kidney Transplant Outcomes

...om dead donors or selection of living donors for transplantation take notice of this effect, in view of the good long-term success with sex-mismatched allografts and the limited access to organs," Dr. Connie L Davis, from the division of nephrology and transplantation at the University of Washington, Seattle, ...

CIT GAP Funds Invests in STR, LLC

...00,000 ACL reconstructions per year in the US, EU, Canada, Japan and Australia. The current standard of care -- primarily consisting of autografts and allografts -- have significant issues, which the L-C Ligament(TM) intends to address by stabilizing the knee and encouraging the regeneration of ligament tissue,...

allografts in Medical Products

Connect Cervical Allografts System

Description: Connect allografts are dense corticocancellous allografts comprised of an anterior cortical face providing structural integrity while allowing immediate perfusion for rapid healing. These allografts are available in Lordotic and Non-Lordotic designs. Connect allografts are processed from donor vert...
Company:Alphatec Spine, Inc.

Puros Allografts

Description: Puros allografts is a family of bone products specially designed and processed to meet the demanding needs of spine surgeons. The grafts are processed using the proprietary Tutoplast process....
Company:Zimmer, Inc.

VertiGraft VG2 TLIF Spine Specialty Allograft

Description:... VertiGraft allografts for spine surgery deliver the strength adn performance you demand in your procedures and they are backed by quality and safety standards that are unma...
Company:LifeNet

Inion S-1 Biodegradable Anterior Cervical Fusion System

Description:...ar), is intended for use in single level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures as a means to maintain the relative position of block bone allografts or autografts. This device is not intended to be used in other areas of spine, and not for load bearing indications....
Company:Inion Ltd.

Natural Selection

Description:... The Natural Selection family of specialty allografts is spinal concepts response to surgeon requests for spinal allograft devices to eliminate the need for painful autograft harvesting....
Company:Abbott Spine

Pro Osteon Bone Graft Substitutes

Description:... Pro Osteon Bone Graft Substitutes a natural alternative to autografts. Surgeons can utilize allografts from cadaver bone, but such grafts may introduce the risk of immune response and disease transmission. Interpore Cross has developed the Pro Osteon fa...
Company:Interpore Cross International, Inc.

Corlok

Description:... Corlok allografts are unique corticocancellous allografts comprised of an anterior cortical face and a uniqu...e interlocking fit with adjacent vertebrae. Corlok allografts are processed from donor vertebral bodies creating...
Company:Alphatec Spine, Inc.

The Natural Selection

Description:... The Natural Selection family of specialty allografts are spinal allograft devices to eliminate the need for painful autograft harvesting....
Company:Abbott Spine

Solo Lumbar Allograft System

Description:... Solo Lumbar allografts are comprised of a cortical perimeter that maximizes compressive strength and an enlarged center core that permits the use of preferred bone graft mat...
Company:Alphatec Spine, Inc.

Duet Lumbar Allograft System

Description:... Duet Lumbar allografts are comprised of a raised cancellous inner core providing biomechanical properties for rapid healing. Specially designed instruments facilitate the in...
Company:Alphatec Spine, Inc.

allografts in Biological News

OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts

... to receive priority allocation of fresh cartilage allografts for transplantation. "Live or fresh tissue t... JRF prepares and coordinates fresh osteochondral allografts that can be used in a variety of joints to treat a...ies that the donors came from. The fresh cartilage allografts are extensively tested to assure bacteria and vira...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

...o induce bone repair. Her research will help diabetics whose impaired bones will not properly heal. She is using adult stem cells, in combination with allografts ?donated bone tissue - to regenerate and repair the patients' damaged bones. She is performing tests on diabetic animals, after which she'll test pati...

allografts in Biological Technology

Osteotech Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

.../Synthetic 748 644 Traditional Tissue 5,277 5,110 Spinal allografts 1,880 2,250 Client Services 1,633 2,424 Other Product Line...

Chad Ronholdt Joins LABS Inc.

...08. His most recent position was Director of Research and Development at AlloSource, one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures. In this role Ronholdt was the primary inventor on three patent-pending platform technologies that greatly enhance allo...

Osteotech Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results; Company Plans Three Product Launches and Unveilings in 2009; Will Provide 2009 Guidance During Conference Call on March 5, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. EST

... Hybrid/Synthetic 900 591 3,087 1,760 Traditional Tissue 4,652 4,491 20,258 17,623 Spinal allografts 2,020 2,438 8,499 10,739 Client Services 1,674 2,085 8,201 7,621 Other Product Lines 92...

AlloSource Distributes Record Amount of Tissue in 2008

...non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures, finished 2008 distributing more life-saving and life-enhancing allografts into its donor communities than ever before, and w...to be tissue donors, whose gifts we processed into allografts that helped people to walk again, live free from p...

AlloSource, Tissue Recipient Join 'Stars of Life' Affected by Organ and Tissue Donation Aboard Donate Life Float in 2009 Rose Parade(R)

...non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures, will this year spo...recise bone, skin, soft-tissue and custom-machined allografts for use in a host of life-saving and life-enhancin...sh cartilage tissue used for joint repair and skin allografts to heal severe burns, AlloSource has become one of...

Osteotech Reports 2008 Third Quarter Financial Results

... Hybrid/Synthetic 816 528 2,187 1,169 Traditional Tissue 5,246 3,963 15,606 13,132 Spinal allografts 1,943 2,292 6,479 8,301 Client Services 1,706 1,664 6,527 5,536 Other Product Lines ...

Osteotech Posts First Quarter Earnings Per Share of $.05 on Revenue Growth of 10%

...brid/Synthetic 644 233 Traditional Tissue 5,110 4,611 Spinal allografts 2,250 2,788 Client Services 2,424 1,928 Other Product Lines ...

Osteotech Reports 2007 Full Year and Fourth Quarter Financial Results; Full Year Revenue of $104.3 Million Exceeds $100 Million Milestone; Diluted Earnings Per Share Was $.15 in 2007

... Core Revenue 17,698 15,124 67,554 58,763 Traditional Tissue 4,491 4,674 17,623 16,955 Spinal allografts 2,438 3,027 10,739 13,795 Client Services 2,085 2,456 7,621 9,128 Other Product Lines ...

JCI table of contents: Dec. 3, 2007

...zation following ischemia is actually what leads to fibrosis and chronic rejection of the organ. TITLE: Microvascular destruction identifies murine allografts that cannot be rescued from airway fibrosis AUTHOR CONTACT: Mark R. Nicolls Medical Service (111P), Palo Alto, California, USA. Phone: (650) 493...

Advancements in Population Age and Technology Drive Future of Orthopedic Materials Market

...greatest promise in the quest for the perfect orthopedic biomaterial." Orthopedic Biomaterials: World Market focuses on products and markets for bone allografts and bone graft substitutes, which include allograft bone substitutes, ceramic-based, polymer-based, factor-based and hyaluronic acid synovial Fluid su...

allografts in Biological Definition

Immunology

...estroyed by the HIV virus. Clinical immunologists also study ways to prevent transplant rejection , in which the immune system attempts to destroy allografts or xenografts . Immunotherapy See main article Immunotherapy The use of immune system components to treat a disease or disorder is know...

Liver

...nd many others. Less commonly, liver transplantation is done for fulminant hepatic failure , in which liver failure occurs over days to weeks. Liver allografts for transplant usually come from non-living donors who have died from fatal brain injury. Living donor liver transplantation is a technique in wh...