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	Hand transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hand transplant is a medical operation to transplant a hand from one human to another.
		The transplanted hand was removed at his request on February 2, 2001.
		Warren Breidenbach and Tsu-Min Tsai in cooperation with the Kleinert Hand Institute and Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hand_transplant (495 words)

	World’s First Successful Hand Transplant Recipient Receives Six-Year Check Up \| News Release \| Jewish Hospital & St ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Breidenbach told Scott during his yearly exam, “You have the best functioning hand of all the recipients in the world.” Scott is one of the 18 patients around the world to receive a hand transplant, six of whom received double hand transplants.
		Bentley added, “A hand transplant is not a life saving surgical procedure, but rather a quality of life issue like that of many kidney transplant patients who undergo surgery to discontinue dialysis for a better quality of life.” Dr.
		Hand Transplant Program The hand transplant program was developed by a partnership of physicians and researchers at Jewish Hospital, the University of Louisville and Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center.
	www.jhhs.org /newsrelease.asp?id=679 (566 words)

	Good Results 6 Months After Hand Transplant
		Dubernard's team conducted the world's first hand transplant on September 23rd, 1998, attaching the right forearm and hand of a 41-year-old brain-dead male victim of head trauma onto the right arm of a 48-year-old New Zealander who lost his right hand in a circular saw accident 5 years previously.
		The transplant recipient was placed on intensive immunosuppressive drug therapy to reduce the risk of his body rejecting the transplanted limb.
		Foucher writes that the "ideal" candidate for a hand transplant, in his view, is a young individual who has recently lost both hands due to accident, frostbite, or clotting problems.
	www.personalmd.com /news/a1999041602.shtml (583 words)

	CNN - Hand-transplant recipient can wiggle fingertips - January 29, 1999
		But the fingers peeking out from the bandage are not his own: They belong to a brain-dead patient whose heart was still beating when surgeons removed his left hand and transplanted it to Scott's arm.
		Breidenbach said Scott was being treated in two ways -- as a transplant patient, with an anti-rejection regimen like that of a kidney transplant patient, and as a limb-reattachment patient.
		Jon Jones, a member of the transplant team, told the Louisville Courier-Journal that there is a 30 percent to 50 percent chance that Scott's body will reject the new hand.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/9901/29/hand.transplant (576 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| World's first double hand transplant
		He was given the hands and a small part of the forearms of a donor.
		A communique from the hospital said the patient and the new hands were in a stable and satisfactory condition.
		However, he has said that the transplanted hand does not have the full sensitivity and dexterity of his original hand.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/603494.stm (536 words)

	inMotion: Passing through the threshold of Limb Transplantation
		Hand replants [in which a person’s own hand, arm or finger is reattached] have been performed at the Center for 30 years.
		The primary criteria for hand transplantation are that a person be between ages 18 and 65 and have had his or her arm amputated below the elbow.
		The hand transplant procedure is generally considered to be technically easier than a replant because the transplanted tissues have not been damaged due to traumatic injury.
	www.amputee-coalition.org /inmotion/jul_aug_01/limb.html (2787 words)

	Transplant Week -- Your Online Transplant Newsletter
		Jerry Fisher, who lost his left hand at the wrist in 1966 as a result of a fireworks accident, was reported in stable condition following surgery by the same group that performed the nation's first hand transplant on Matthew Scott two years ago.
		A hand transplant, unlike a solid organ transplant, involves multiple tissues (skin, muscle, tendon, bone, cartilage, fat, nerves and blood vessels) and is called composite tissue allotransplantation.
		She told Agence France Presse, however, that the hand transplanted to Scott in late January 1999 was "not 100 percent functional.
	www.transplantweek.org /members/vol2/news/010703.htm (295 words)

	Nurseweek/Healthweek\|Hand transplant recipient is doing well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The country’s first hand transplant patient was able to wiggle his index finger within a day and a half of his 14-hour surgery, but physicians remained cautious in predicting the outcome of the procedure.
		Scott will probably be able to hold a glass and open a door, but the transplanted hand won’t ever work as well as his own hand, which was blown off by a firecracker in 1985.
		Some health professionals and ethicists have questioned whether the benefit of the transplanted hand outweighs the risk of the anti-rejection drugs and question the transplant team’s choice of Scott, who has diabetes, as their first patient.
	www.nurseweek.com /news/99-2/1d.html (347 words)

	Transplant 2001: Hand Transplant Continues Gains After Two Years, Second Doing Well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Cendales conducted the transplant with colleagues at Kleinert, Kurtz, and Associates in Louisville, Kentucky, and at the University of Louisville.
		The transplant procedure was similar to that for immediate reimplantation of a traumatically amputated hand except for use of immunosuppressive medications and for tendon grafts and transfers as needed.
		Although hand transplant is still an experimental procedure, it appears promising enough to deserve serious consideration for appropriate patients.
	www.pslgroup.com /dg/1FB6EE.htm (523 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Hand transplant patient moves fingers 01/29/99
		Hand transplant patient Matthew Scott listens as Dr. Warren Breidenbach holds the transplanted hand and talks with two reporters in Scott's hospital room at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, Jan. 28, 1999.
		LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Hand transplant patient Matthew Scott flexed his new fingertips ever so slightly Thursday, and one of his surgeons said he was almost out of danger of developing blood clots.
		He is one of two people in the world with a transplanted hand, the other being an Australian who underwent the graft in Lyon, France, in September.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/012999/tec_thehand.shtml (325 words)

	Hand Transplant
		The history of hand transplantation is a relatively short one; the first successful procedure did not take place until 1998, and since then only about two dozen such operations have been performed.
		Hand transplantation is still in its experimental stages, and thus each new operation is significant.
		Transplanted hand of Matthew Scott, the first patient to undergo this procedure in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of Jewish Hospital; Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center; and University of Louisville [www.handtransplant.org])
	biomed.brown.edu /Courses/BI108/BI108_2003_Groups/Hand_Transplantation/history.html (609 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Surgeons Perform 1st U.S. Hand Transplant
		Tuesday, January 26, 1999; Page A2 Surgeons in Kentucky yesterday completed the first hand transplant ever attempted in the United States, attaching the left hand of a cadaver to the arm of a New Jersey man who lost his appendage in a firecracker accident 13 years ago.
		The transplanted hand became pink and showed very preliminary signs that the connected blood vessels were doing their job following the 15-hour operation at Louisville Medical Center.
		Transplants involving internal organs have become almost commonplace, but medical experts say hands present special problems because they are made up of so many different types of tissue.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/daily/jan99/hand26.htm (780 words)

	Transplant, hand and forearm definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Transplant, hand and forearm: Transplantation of the hand and the forearm from one person (a deceased donor) to another (the recipient).
		In the first hand transplant, performed in Ecuador in 1964, the donor hand was rejected after two weeks.
		Although loss of a hand is a major handicap, hands are not necessary to live and the anti-rejection drugs pose many risks and must be taken for life.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12414 (316 words)

	Marylin's Transplant Page: Transplant Hand Now Amputated
		Professor Owen, who was one of the leaders of the international transplant team that attached Mr Hallam's new hand in a revolutionary operation in 1998, said the limb was removed in a short operation at an undisclosed London hospital.
		He said the hand was removed at the request of the New Zealander, who is wanted on fraud charges in Australia and New Zealand, after his body irreversibly rejected the organ because he failed to follow the correct treatment.
		The six hand transplants conducted since Mr Hallam's hand was attached included a double hand transplant that had had exceptional results.
	www.marylinstransplantpage.com /hand01.htm (517 words)

	CNN.com - Health - Surgeons perform second hand transplant in U.S. - February 17, 2001
		The donor hand came from a man who was declared brain dead.
		Hand surgeons, anesthesiologists and transplant experts from Kleinert, Kutz and Associates and the University of Louisville made up the transplant team.
		The first hand transplant was done in France in 1998.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/02/17/hand.transplant (493 words)

	More hand transplants to be performed, predict experts at international congress
		According to the transplant team in Lyon, France, the world's first double-hand transplant patient is able to shave and take care of other personal hygiene tasks that he was unable to do before his transplant.
		Italian surgeons said that 22 years after one patient's hand was severed, the transplant has afforded nearly the same sense of touch in his transplanted hand as his other.
		According to the hand transplant teams represented at the International Congress of The Transplantation Society, hand transplantation and other types of composite tissue transplantation would benefit patients whose limbs have been severed or amputated or who require reconstructive surgery due to tumor resections or congenital deformities.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-08/ts-mht082002.php (854 words)

	Health worker first in U.S. to undergo hand transplant
		He cautioned that a transplanted hand won't work well immediately after surgery, unlike organs, and that improvement in function may not be as dramatic as patients hope to see.
		The muscles that originate in the hand have their own nerve supply, though, Tomaino said, but those transplanted nerves are unlikely to regain full function.
		Kynor said she became excited about the possibility of a hand transplant after the first such operation took place in France last year, but when she asked her doctor about it, he advised against it until more is known about the procedure.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/19990126limb1.asp (1191 words)

	Hand transplant patient returns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Matthew Scott, the nation's first hand transplant recipient, returned to Louisville this week for a series of evaluations and tests at Jewish Hospital and Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center.
		To mark that historical transplant procedure, Scott and his wife, Dawn, were joined by members of the transplant team to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the event during a "welcome home" party at Jewish Hospital.
		The hand transplant program was developed by a partnership of physicians and researchers at Jewish Hospital, U of L and Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, PLLC.
	www.louisville.edu /~nobody/ur/onpi/inside/1-28-00/hand.html (218 words)

	Science Fiction of Face Transplants May Be Closer Than You Think (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		With the first successful nerve transplant study conducted in 1998, the foundation was laid for larger transplants, such as a hand, foot or ear.
		Originally, plastic surgeons thought a hand transplant had a 50 percent chance of surviving just a year but were pleasantly surprised – finding that the first hand transplants lasted at least two years for 90 percent of patients.
		Although the first successful hand transplant recently passed the five-year mark, the procedure is not yet common.
	www.plasticsurgery.org /news_room/press_releases/Science-Fiction-of-Face-Transplants.cfm (613 words)

	Anti-rejection drugs give tran
		It is the risk-benefit analysis that also favours a transplanted hand rather than a foot, for Tobin and his team.
		Whether transplanting one hand or two, the process will be a long one for the American team, which also includes Dr. Warren Breindenbach, Dr. Jon William Jones, Jr.
		As Dr. Tobin puts it, the patient "is taking the same drugs, whether there's one hand or two." And it is new advances in these drugs that have put limb transplants back on the medical agenda for the first time since an unsuccessful hand transplant in Ecuador in the 1960s.
	www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=1998092553 (962 words)

	Hand Transplant: Recipient - Second In The Nation - Gains Feeling In His New Left Hand, September 17-24, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The hand transplant was performed at Jewish Hospital during a 13-hour surgical procedure by physicians from Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, PLLC, and University of Louisville in February 2001.
		Fisher is expected to return to Louisville in October 2001 for his next checkup with the Louisville hand transplant team.
		The transplant procedure performed February 16-17, 2001, at Jewish Hospital included an 18-member hand transplant surgical team from Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, and the University of Louisville as well as a five-member team from Anesthesiology Associates.
	www.obgyn.net /NewsRx/general_health-Hand_Transplant-20010924-17.asp (656 words)

	ASSH \| Transplantation
		In summary, hand transplantation is still an experimental procedure that may enhance the function and/or appearance of carefully selected patients. Further research and progress in transplant immunology are needed before it can be considered a consistently safe and efficacious practice.
		(10) (11) (12) And while a comparison of a hand transplant to a kidney transplant as equal with respect to the “improved quality of life”, statistics and analysis clearly demonstrate that kidney transplants save lives when one appreciates that with sustained renal dialysis, there is a mortality rate of 21%.
		(15) (16) A successful transplant in animal experimental models remains a challenge simply because of the large amounts of immune suppression required for survival of the transplant. The complications of such medications, at least in animal models, are currently overwhelming.
	www.assh.org /Content/NavigationMenu/PatientsPublic/HandConditions/Transplantation/Transplantation.htm (863 words)

	Matthew Ore - Ruling December 19, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The transplanted shellfish may be harvested and sold for public consumption after the shellfish have remained at the transplant site for at least 21 consecutive days where the water temperature during that period has been at least 50F.
		The intent of the transplant program is to protect the State's shellfish resource and to assure the public health of those who consume shellfish.
		While participating in the transplant program, a digger may not harvest clams from certified waters according to the conditions of the transplant permit.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/ohms/decis/orer.htm (1667 words)

	Hand transplant patient progresses
		Matt Scott, the nation's first hand transplant recipient, returned to Louisville this week for his annual checkup and was pronounced fit.
		His hand functions have leaped in the last year," said Dr. Warren Breidenbach, who led the transplant team that performed the surgery on Scott at Jewish Hospital on Jan. 24, 1999.
		The Jewish Hospital team performed a second hand transplant in February 2001, on Jerry Fisher, a Michigan contractor.
	www.courier-journal.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050212/NEWS01/502120423 (395 words)

	CNN - Hand transplant patient learning to use new limb - March 5, 1999
		LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) -- As his doctor watches, Matthew Scott tries to flex his left hand -- the new one, the one he was missing for more than a dozen years.
		That outcome would be as good as the best outcome from hand reattachments that follow severe injury.
		The operation, planned for more than a year, came four months after a similar hand transplant in France.
	us.cnn.com /HEALTH/9903/05/hand.transplant (425 words)

	First Us Hand Transplant Performed
		The left-handed man, who lost his left hand in an accident involving an M80 firecracker in 1985, underwent 15 hours of surgery at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, to attach a donor arm.
		The patient received a donated left hand, with the reattachment close to the wrist.
		While surgeons routinely perform hand reattachment procedures, which may be a more difficult surgery because of crushing and destruction of the nerves and tissue in an amputated hand, these operations are the only known procedures in which an arm from a dead donor was used to replace a missing limb.
	www.personalmd.com /news/a1999012508.shtml (650 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / Hand transplant recipient counts himself as lucky
		Carrie Marcell, hand transplant coordinator at Jewish Hospital, said more than 100 people have contacted her since Scott's historic 14-hour operation Jan. 24-25 at the Louisville hospital.
		An attempt at a hand transplant was made in the 1960s, but it failed.
		The new hand also offers a chance to blot out his own tragedy when his left hand was blown off in a fireworks explosion.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newsus99/newsus166.html (397 words)

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