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Questions of Interest to Patients:

  • What is the difference between an “allograft” vs. “autograft” knee ligament implant?

  • How safe are allograft ligament implants?

  • Can my knee become infected, or can I contract a transmissible disease, from an implanted ligament allograft?

  • What safety measures do tissue banks take to prevent allograft contamination and patient infection?

  • Why doesn’t the FDA require that all tissue allografts be certified as sterile?

  • Can more be done to improve allograft tissue safety?

  • Does the technology exist to sterilize knee ligament allografts without compromising their strength?

Learn the answers to these questions and
more, by clicking on the links below:

“ALLOGRAFT TISSUE STERILIZATION”, reproduced with permission, from Managing Infection Control, Volume 7, No.2, pages 20-26, 2007..

“RESEARCHERS FINDING WAYS TO STERILIZE TISSUE TRANSPLANTS”. National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition”, March 22, 2007..

Additional information may also be found at www.clearant.com

   
 
 
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