The impact of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) program on radiation and tissue banking in Thailand
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The impact of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) program on radiation and tissue banking in Thailand Yongyudh Vajaradul Æ Jorge Morales Pedraza
Received: 2 June 2008 / Accepted: 2 June 2008 / Published online: 29 July 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Abstract Tissue banking started in Thailand in 1979. Five years after this, the Bangkok Biomaterial Centre (BBC) was established in the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, with the support of the IAEA program. The objective of the Centre was to provide sterile bones and tissues for clinical use. Through the passage of time, the Bangkok Biomaterial Centre has gained confidence from the end user and by 2007 has processed 33,872 allografts from 491 deceased donors and 4,035 live donors were used in medical treatment in 3,596 patients in more than 79 different hospitals. More than 305 surgeons from Thailand used the tissue produced in the BBC. At the beginning of its work the BBC concentrate its activities on the production of the following tissues: freeze dried bone, freeze dried dura mater and freeze
Yongyudh Vajaradul is a Founder of Bangkok Biomaterial Centre and also a President of TATB, Bangkok, Thailand. Jorge Morales Pedraza is a former IAEA Interregional Project Manager, Vienna, Austria. Y. Vajaradul (&) Bangkok Biomaterial Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand e-mail: [email protected] Y. Vajaradul TATB, Bangkok, Thailand J. Morales Pedraza Charagasse 3, Apart. 13, 10-30 Vienna, Austria e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
dried fascia lata. All of these tissues were sterilised using ethylene oxide gas until the end of year 1984. Since 1985 the BBC sterilise tissue using ionising radiation. The BBC is now producing deep-frozen; bone tendon, cartilage, trachea and soft tissue; freezedried; bone, fascia lata, dura mater, amniotic membrane, bone hydroxyapatite, bone tablet and fresh preserved amniotic membrane Keywords Thailand IAEA Tissue banking Tissue banks
Introduction The early period Tissue banking activities started in Thailand in 1979; and in June of this year the first operation was carried out. Five years later, the Bangkok Biomaterial Centre (BBC) was established, with the support of the RCA agreement and the IAEA program, in the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital. The objective of the Centre was to provide sterile bones and tissues for clinical use (Morales Pedraza 2002) Other objectives were the following: (a)
To carry out research and develop the technology of tissue banking. (b) To be the National and Regional Tissue Banking Training Centre for surgeons, scientists and
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technicians for higher education postgraduate study and master degree program. To exchange tissue personnel among other tissue banks (Morales Pedraza 2002).
The initial location of the BBC was in the third floor of Lottery Building at Siriraj Hospital. The Centre covered an area of 601 square meters, of which 174.6 square mete
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