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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