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Manufacturer: BioTissue
Ocular Surface Repair + Protection, Ophthalmology
AmnioGuard 2.5 x 2.0cm
Item #: AGD-2520Manufacturer: BioTissue
Super strength, powerful properties.
AmnioGuard® is an ultra-thick, cryopreserved amniotic membrane graft that suppresses inflammation, promotes healing, and provides durable tensile strength to avoid surgical challenges associated with reconstructive procedures.1-4
BioTissue’s biologic ocular transplantation tissue grafts help your patients heal better and faster. BioTissue’s CryoTek® cryopreserved amniotic membrane grafts are the only amniotic membrane products cleared by the FDA for their therapeutic properties in repairing and healing ocular surface inflammation.5
AmnioGuard can be used for a variety of indications including:
- Shunt tube exposure prevention
- Scleral melt/ischemia
- Fornix and socket reconstruction
- Marginal entropion repair
- Removal of tumors or lesions
- Symblepharon
- Descemetocele or perforation
- Ocular dermal wounds
- Limbal tumors surface reconstruction
- Oculoplastics/trauma
- Harnessing Regenerative Healing Potential: AmnioGuard helps achieve complete epithelialization, without wound dehiscence and excellent prosthesis fit at final follow-up with no clinically significant complications.3
- Excellent Alternative to Other Homologous Grafts: AmnioGuard serves as an excellent alternative to other homologous tissue grafts for ocular surface reconstruction and management of Anophthalmic socket contracture.3
- Super Stability and Advanced Healing Outcomes: AmnioGuard has been shown to help promote superior stability in post-glaucoma treatment and optimal healing in post-oculoplasty surgery.1
- Location and Temperature: -80°C → 4°C (-112°F → 39.2°F)
- Shelf Life: Within the expiration date printed on product packaging (2 years from date of manufacture)
- Instructions:
- If frozen, allow AmnioGuard to sit at controlled room temperature (20°C to 25°C) inits original unopened packaging for at least 5 minutes.
- Open the outer foil peel pouch and present the clear inner pouch to the sterile field using aseptic techniques.
- Open the clear inner peel pouch to retrieve AmnioGuard.
- Place the tissue on the surgical area to deliver the therapeutic properties of AmnioGuard.
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1. Sheha H, Tello C, Al-Aswad L, Sayed M, Lee R. Outcomes of the Shunt Tube Exposure Prevention Study (STEPS), a randomized clinical trial. Opthalmol Glaucoma. [Online] August 16, 2019.
- 2. Finger PT, Jain P, Mukkamala SK. Super-thick amniotic membrane for ocular surface reconstruction. Am J Opthalmol. 2019;198:45-53.
- 3. Slentz, D. and Nelson, C. (2019). Novel Use of Cryopreserved Ultra-thick Human Amniotic Membrane for Management of Anophthalmic Socket Contracture. Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 35(2), pp.193-196.
- 4. Johnson, Amy, et al. “Understanding the impact of preservation methods on the integrity and functionality of placental allografts.” Annals of plastic surgery 79.2 (2017): 203-213.
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5. Tighe S, Mead O, Lee A and Tseng S. Basic Science Review of Birth Tissue Uses in Ophthalmology. Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology. 2020; 10.
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