Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 58. No. 4., 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20471/acc.2019.58.04.01
Establishment of the Bone Tissue Bank at Mostar University Clinical Hospital
Marko Ostojić
; Department of Orthopedics, Mostar University Clinical Hospital, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zrinka Bulj
; Department of Orthopedics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
David Kordić
; Emergency Department, Mostar Public Health Centre, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Darko Šunjić
; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andrija Buntić
; Department of Histology and Embryology, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kristijan Juka
; Department of Surgery, Mostar University Clinical Hospital, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivana Bliznac
; Department of Orthopedics, Mostar University Clinical Hospital, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Angela Topić
; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zdenko Ostojić
; Department of Orthopedics, Mostar University Clinical Hospital, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Krešimir Rotim
; Department of Neurosurgery, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Marijo Bekić
; Dubrovnik General Hospital, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Abstract
Bone tissue banks are necessary for collection, production, testing, packaging, storage and delivery of bone transplants. Bone tissue bank is a link between the donor and the recipient by which the donation becomes a medium of health improvement for both the donor and the recipient. At the Department of Orthopedics, Mostar University Clinical Hospital, about 200 total hip replacements are performed per year. Most patients undergoing total hip replacement surgery (90%) have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, and they are suitable donors, having in mind their age and comorbidities. In the same Department, around 50 procedures that require bone transplants are performed per year. A team of highly competent surgeons are working on an intensive process of adaptation oriented to quality improvement and intensification of the activity, both with the goal of meeting the standards of excellence in orthopedic surgery. The presence of a bone tissue bank has a favorable
impact on the quality of health care owing to bone transplant availability, as well as on the scientific role of a highly specialized institution that examines the properties of bone tissue.
Keywords
Tissue banks; Bone banks; Arthroplasty, replacement, hip; Bone transplantation
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Publication date:
1.12.2019.
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