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标题: A Year after Double Hand Transplantation [打印本页]

作者: choi    时间: 10-7-2012 12:35
标题: A Year after Double Hand Transplantation
Liz Kowalczyk, With 2 Hands, a Life Resumed. Boston Globe, Oct 5, 2012 (title in print; front page)
http://articles.boston.com/2012- ... ino-transplant-team
("He drives, throws and catches a Wiffle ball, paints, and even plays 'Pretty Woman' on the guitar * * * Since Mangino feels heat, cold, pain, pressure, and other sensations, [his lead transplantation surgeon Bohdan] Pomahac expects his fine motor skills to follow soon")

My comment:
(a) From the photo, you can see where the connections are--in forearms. The same transplantationis contemplating to do a transplantation much higher, above the elbows--which will need the nerve to grow further than this case. See
Ros Krasny, Texas Woman to Receive First US Double Arm Transplant. Reuters, Sept 12, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USL1E8KCJPE20120912
("A Texas woman who lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria has been approved for a double arm transplant at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in what will be the first such procedure performed in the United States")
(b) Brigham and Women's Hospital
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_and_Women's_Hospital
(one of many teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School; section 2 History)
(c) Matt Scott 13 Year Checkup. YouTube.com, published on Mar 2, 2012 by JHMediaServices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIY7eVtcI20

The one-hand transplabntation was performed by Surgeons Warren C BREIDENBACH and Tsu-Min TSAI of Louisville, Kentucky-based Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center.
http://handtransplant.com/HandTr ... id/124/Default.aspx
("1999 - World’s first successful hand transplant")




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