Cardiovascular Tissue
ETB-BISLIFE is the only heart valve bank in the Netherlands that has a licence for the preparation and storage of donated human cardiovascular tissue (mostly heart valves and vessels). Hearts and blood vessels are dissected from donated hearts. These are mainly obtained from Dutch donors.
The prepared tissue is stored deep-frozen in liquid nitrogen vapour, meaning it has a shelf-life of 5 years. The stocked tissue can only satisfy some of the demand from Dutch and foreign hospitals.
In cases where no suitable tissue is available, ETB-BISLIFE will collaborate with a number of heart valve banks in other countries.
Our product range is listed below.
Heart valves
Aortic valve
Pulmonary valves
Patches
Aortic patches
Pulmonary patches
Split pulmonary patches
length pulmonaal arterie minimal: 15 mm
Vascular tissue
Aorto-iliac bifurcation
Thoracic aorta
Artery femoralis/Iliaca
Having the two arteries in the same bag is also available.