Cardiovascular tissue banking activity during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: evolution of national protocols and Lombardy experience
| Autor: | Giuseppe Piccolo, Barbara Micheli, Giorgio Mastroiacovo, Alice Bonomi, Francesca Capriuoli, Luca Dainese, Anna Guarino, Marco Gennari, Gianluca Polvani, Sergio Pirola |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Donor tissue Biomedical Engineering Tissue Banks Biomaterials Internal medicine Pandemic medicine Humans Respiratory system Pandemics Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Transplantation Cardiovascular tissue harvesting Cardiovascular tissues donation Full Length Paper SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Public health COVID-19 Outbreak Cell Biology Middle Aged United States Northern italy Italy Child Preschool SARS-CoV-2 pandemic business Tissue Banking |
| Zdroj: | Cell and Tissue Banking |
| ISSN: | 1573-6814 1389-9333 |
| Popis: | The worldwide pandemic outbreak due to severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has created unprecedented challenges for public health services. Lombardy, region of the Northern Italy, has been the first area in the Western world whose organs and tissues procurement programs have had to face the virus pandemic emergency. We retrospectively collected and analyzed data about cardiovascular tissues (CT) in 2019 and in 2020. We aimed to describe the rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2 regulation laws for tissue donor’s selection and harvesting from February 2020 until January 2021. As expected the number of CT donors in 2020 was significantly lower than those of 2019 (66 vs. 99, p value 0.02). The total number of CT collected from donors have been 254 in 2019 and 206 in 2020 (p 0.28). Femoral arteries were the most required vascular tissues (55.5% in 2019 and 40% in 2020). Fifty-five and forty-eight pulmonary valves were implanted in 2019 and 2020, respectively. No differences were found for the types of CT requests between the 2 years. The median age of receivers of vascular tissues was 69.6 ± 14.6 years in the 2019 and 63.3 ± 14.9 years in 2020 (p |
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