Can you get a herpes virus infection from a cadaver rib graft after rhinoplasty?

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Mario J. Imola, MD, DDS · Answer

It is definitely possible to get a herpes viral infection after nasal surgery during which a cadaveric rib graft was used.  However, in such an event, the herpes infection was not transmitted by the cadaveric rib graft but instead the result of surgical stress causing virus activation and clinical infection in a person previously infected with the herpes virus.  It is recommended that these patients be treated prophylactically with antiviral drugs before and after the surgery.  Unfortunately, it is not uncommon that many people are unaware that they have been previously infected and are carriers of the virus.Mario J. Imola, MD, DDS, FRCSC, FACS.

Marcelo Ghersi, MD · Answer

Cadaver rib graft is extensively processed to make it inert and sterile. It would be highly unlikely for anyone to get an infection from these products.

Mark Loury, MD, FACS (retired) · Answer

I believe that Cadaver tissues are radiated which denatures DNA. A virus to cause an infection must inject its DNA into a cell which uses the cell's machinery to makemore virus. Irradiated DNA can't do this. Therefore it would be almost impossible to get Herpes from a graft

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