UCLA launches program to provide face, hand and abdominal wall transplants

While lifesaving solid-organ transplants have become increasingly common at major centers such as UCLA, reconstructive transplantation — a complex surgery involving composite tissues (bones, tendons, arteries, nerves) — marks a new direction for the field. Unlike organ transplants, which are performed to save lives, reconstructive transplants aim to dramatically improve them. View Full Story >>

UCLA's First Hand Transplant Patient Adapting Well to New Hand

26-year-old single mom looking forward to doing the 'little things' again.

Six-and-a-half weeks after receiving the first hand transplant in the western United States, Emily Fennell is becoming so accustomed to her new right hand that she barely remembers when she didn't have one.
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UCLA's heart transplant program ranked best in the U.S.

A new survey by an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recognized the heart transplant program at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as the nation's best. The HRSA survey is designed to evaluate and recognize the country's highest performing organ transplant programs. UCLA's was the only heart transplant program in the U.S. to be ranked at the silver level.  Read more >>

'Beating heart' technology could revolutionize field of heart transplantation

The heart transplantation team at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical is currently leading a national, multicenter phase 2 clinical study of an experimental organ-preservation system that allows donor hearts to continue functioning in a near-physiologic state outside the body during transport. Read more >>