Jointly Building Bridges

Cells + Tissuebank Austria (C+TBA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring medical treatment with human tissue of top quality and safety. C+TBA builds the bridge between donors, clinical users, and recipients.

TISSUE DONOR

C+TBA collects and processes primarily femoral heads removed during the implantation of total hip prostheses.

TISSUE DONOR

Processing

The tissue is processed in C+TBA’s clean rooms in Krems an der Donau in Austria complying with the highest quality and safety standards.

Processing

Application

Major fields of application of the processed tissues comprise orthopaedics, trauma and spinal surgery, as well as dental surgery.

Application

Quality and safety

Specialising in human, musculoskeletal tissue, C+TBA takes care of the whole life cycle of the transplants, from the collection to the processing and distribution of the donor tissue. Thus, the C+TBA sets quality standards securing compliance with clearly defined product qualities.

Quality and safety

NETWORK

With our network of qualified, audited and approved donor centres, partner tissue banks, laboratories, certified forwarding agents and service partners for hospitals and physicians, the C+TBA supplies musculoskeletal tissues to physicians for a large variety of applications.

NETWORK

Sports medicine & complex tansplants

Co-operating with other tissue banks, C+TBA also offers soft tissues for use in sports medicine and complex transplants, e. g. tumour surgery.

Sports medicine & complex tansplants

FACTSHEET: Antibiotics

Infection prophylaxis and infection therapy include the use of antibiotic bone cement and other antibiotic carriers. Depending on the indication, various substances are required for local antibiosis to ensure an efficient release of the agent. There is some controversy in the international literature about the efficiency and duration required for a successful therapy. The current Factsheet summarises the results and application of antibiotics in combination with C+TBA’s allografts.

The C+TBA Process

The inactivation of viruses, bacteria and fungi while preserving the biomechanical and biological properties for bone regeneration is the goal of the C+TBA process which is illustrated in a short video.