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Texas man gets first hand transplant done in North Carolina
A Texas man is the first person to get a hand transplant in North Carolina.
Jun 9, 2016
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News tagged with hand transplant
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US boy with double-hand transplant leaves hospital
An 8-year-old boy who became the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant has left the Philadelphia hospital where the procedure was done and was returning to his Maryland home.
Aug 26, 2015
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Boy who lost limbs to infection gets double-hand transplant
Surgeons in Philadelphia have performed a double-hand transplant on a boy believed to be the youngest patient to undergo the procedure.
Jul 28, 2015
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World's first bilateral hand transplant on child at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine recently to complete the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully ...
Jul 28, 2015
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Medical research
Team develops transplantable bioengineered forelimb in an animal model
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has made the first steps towards development of bioartificial replacement limbs suitable for transplantation. In their report, which has been published online in ...
Jun 2, 2015
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Cleveland Clinic does its second face transplant
Cleveland Clinic surgeons have replaced nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident, the hospital announced Tuesday.
Nov 18, 2014
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Neuroscience
Hand transplant recovery sheds new light on touch
Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant. That's the suggestion from a small study that points to changes in the brain, not just the new hand, as a reason.
Nov 16, 2014
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Other
Hand transplantation: A Swiss research success
Hope for hand amputees: researchers at Inselspital and the University of Bern have successfully tested a new method for local immunosuppression.
Aug 22, 2013
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Despite success, demand low for hand transplants
A year after a young amputee left the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with transplanted hands and forearms, the lead surgeon calls her progress "nothing less than spectacular."
Dec 17, 2012
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Surgery
Secondhand smoke results in graft rejection
A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that cigarette smoke exposure, in a cause-effect manner, results in graft rejection that would have been prevented by certain drug treatments.
Feb 23, 2012
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