Hand transplantation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8847003733 ISBN 13: 9788847003736

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

This book presents international experimental and clinical experience on limb transplantation and other composite tissue allografts, representing the most complete and comprehensive review of this innovative and ground breaking procedure. This book is a milestone in medical literature and an asset for every scientific library.

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"Hand Transplantation is organized into 14 sections ... . Each chapter is replete with excellent color plates, illustrations, radiographic images, tables, and figures that fully complement the text. The book includes a bibliography of hand transplantation that is contemporary and comprehensive Lanzetta and Dubernard should be complimented on this book, which provides stimulating and interesting reading about a groundbreaking field that is at the frontier of reconstructive surgery." (Vijay S. Gorantla and W. P. Andrew Lee, New England Journal of Medicine,Vol. 358 (1), January, 2008)

Synopsis:

Transplanting a limb has been a dream of humanity - until 1998 when an international team of surgeons gathered in Lyon, France, and performed the first hand transplantation in history. Since then, groups in the United States, China, Austria, Italy and Belgium have launched hand transplantation programmes. In 2002, the International Registry on Hand and Composite Tissue Transplantation (IRHCTT) was created with the purpose of collecting and analysing data from every centre. This book presents the global experimental and clinical experience on hand transplantation and all types of other composite tissue allografts so far performed. A complete review of all aspects of these innovative and ground-breaking procedures is clearly presented in 15 different sections. They include the experimental basis of hand transplantation, strategies for selecting ideal candidates and preparing successful hand transplantation programmes, surgical techniques, most effective immunosuppressive drug regimes, analysis of the unique immunological behaviour of these transplants and rehabilitation protocols to achieve optimal sensory and motor recovery.

Each section is dedicated to a special issue, such as psychological and medicolegal implications, brain remodelling after hand transplantation and introduction of a new scoring system for overall comprehensive outcome evaluation. A complete list of composite tissues allografts currently carried out around the world is reported in detail, including the face, abdominal wall, uterus, larynx and knee joint. A selection of videos highlights functional outcome of the transplanted hands in the daily activities and professional lives of these patients. This book is a milestone in the medical literature and represents a great asset for every scientific library.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8847003733
• ISBN 13: 9788847003736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 514
• Editor: Lanzetta Marco, Dubernard Jean-Michel