Present article describes the outcomes of first successful bilateral hand transplantation after 18 months compliance. Although hand transplantation has become a flourishing treatment modality for adult amputees but no successful case has been reported in pediatric population. This article briefs about the surgical, neurorehabilitation and immunological details in a 8-year-old child with a kidney transplant and quadrimembral amputations. Hand transplantation involves ‘’vascularized composite allotransplantation” or VCA in which multiple organs are transplanted as a single functional unit.
It is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. In July 2015, this major bilateral hand transplant surgery was performed on an 8 year old child with a pre-existing history of kidney transplant. Case study: Pre-operative preparations : Before the transplantation, the medical…
