AI Article Synopsis

  • The study aims to create a surgical technique for quickly and gently recovering inner ear tissue from human organ and tissue donors to aid in research.
  • Researchers explored new methods to obtain specimens from donors while coordinating with organ transplantation processes, ensuring a minimally traumatic approach to tissue extraction.
  • The results showed a successful three-step procedure to extract inner ear tissues, highlighting organ donors as valuable, yet underused, sources for research in the field.

Article Abstract

Objective: To develop a surgical approach for rapid and minimally traumatic recovery of inner ear tissue from human organ and tissue donors to provide fresh tissue for use in inner ear research.

Study Design: Exploration of novel surgical methodology and evaluation of the steps necessary for obtaining specimens from donors during the procurement of organs for transplantation.

Setting: Donor procurement locations across multiple local hospitals and tissue processing at the microsurgical temporal bone laboratory.

Patients Tissue Source: Human organ and tissue donors.

Interventions: Dissection and procurement of the inner ear tissue.

Main Outcome Measures: Development of rapid and minimally traumatic inner ear tissue recovery. Primarily, establishing an efficient process which includes collaboration with transplant network, implementing a consent protocol, developing and training an on-call recovery team, and designing a portable surgical kit suitable for use in a variety of settings.

Results: The extraction procedure is described in three consecutive steps: the trans-canal exposure, the approach to the vestibule with extraction of the vestibular organs; and the approach to extract inner ear tissues from the cochlear duct.

Conclusions: Organ and tissue donors are a promising and underutilized resource of inner ear organs for purposes of research and future translational studies. Using our modified technique through the trans-canal/trans-otic approach, we were able to extract tissues of the vestibular and auditory end organs in a timely manner.

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