Know More about Organ Donation - Bone Transplant

Types of bone transplant

• Autograft

  • Bone graft is removed from a living donor and re-used on the same person

• Allograft

  • Bone graft is removed from a living or deceased donor
  • Bone allograft is used in skeletal reconstruction of long bone and femoro / patellar joint defects, revision of traumatic bone loss and after tumour resection
  • Bone allograft is sterilised by gamma irradiation and stored at -80°C for use within 5 years, or by freeze-drying method and stored for long-term use

• Bone fusion – donated bone can stimulate bone living cells to make bone grow and connect together (e.g. metal implantation for patients with scoliosis)

• Bone defect restoration – donated bone can restore bone tissue defects (e.g. after benign tumour resection or artificial joint replacement)

• Bone defect reconstruction – donated bone can reconstruct and fix bone defects (e.g. after bone resection due to malignant tumour)

• Aged between 16 and 60
• Meet the general criteria for deceased organ / tissue donation
• Donation within 12 hours after cardiac death
• Hepatitis carriers not good for bone donation
• No severe infection or infectious diseases
• No history of continuous steroid treatment
• Not a long-term bedridden patient