Product Overview
RTI Surgical's Fresh-stored Osteochondral (OC) Distal Tibia allograft enables surgeons to resurface osteochondral defects with mature hyaline cartilage and repair subchondral bone in a single procedure. The Fresh-stored OC Distal Tibia is cleansed, processed and preserved to maintain chondrocyte viability.
Features & Benefits
• Specifically sized to match patient radiographs or MRIs
• RTI’s processes for fresh OC grafts addresses tissue safety while maintaining chondrocyte viability through all phases of pre-transplantation screening, testing and processing in accordance with applicable regulations and standards. RTI accomplishes this via:
- Rigorous pre-transplantation donor screening and testing
- Validated processing techniques
- Highly skilled and trained operators
- Qualified shipping measures
- Stringent visual inspection criteria
• Aspetic processing in a certified ISO Class 5 clean environment to ensure a high quality processing setting
• Proprietary antibiotic soak developed by RTI Surgical to reduce potential contamination
• Eight cultures are taken during processing and packaging episodes to detect microbial contamination
• Refrigeration in nutrient media to preserve chondrocyte viability
• Validated packaged shelf life of 45 days to preserve chondrocyte viability
• Fresh OC grafts are released for distribution after 14 days of culture monitoring, although final fungal cultures continue to be monitored for a total of 28 days
• Loaner instrumentation is provided at no additional cost for use during the allograft procedure (http://www.rtix.com/en_us/)
