Hand Allotransplantation
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Currently any kind of vascularized composite allotransplantation depends on long-term-immunosuppression, difficult to support for non-life-critical indications. We present a new porcine tibial VCA model that can be used to study bone VCA and demonstrate the use of surgical angiogenesis to maintain bone viability without the need of long-term immune-modulation.
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Vascularized Composite Hand Allograft Procurement and Preparation for Distal and Proximal Forearm Allotransplantation: A Stepwise Approach
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Here, we present a protocol for procuring and preparing vascularized composite hand allografts during distal or proximal forearm transplantation.
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Heterotopic Hindlimb-to-Neck Transplantation in the Mouse: A Supermicrosurgical Model of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
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2026
We present a reproducible mouse model of heterotopic hindlimb-to-neck vascularized composite allotransplantation. This supermicrosurgical protocol, involving 0.3-0.5 mm vessel anastomoses, integrates nylon filament guidance and venous cuffing. It provides a reliable platform for translational studies on tolerance, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and immunological mechanisms in vascularized composite allotransplantation.
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The Rubber Hand Illusion
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Reaching for objects, walking without hitting obstacles, landing on a chair as you sit (instead of falling to the floor), these and all our physical actions depend on an ability to perceive our own bodies in space, to know where our limbs are relative to one another and relative to the rest of the world. One way that the human brain encodes this information is called proprioception, the brain relies on its own control and feedback...
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Measurement of the Hand Transmitted Vibration of the Human Hand Arm System During Operation of a Hand Tractor
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FAQs
The transplanted hand contains donor tissues that can be recognized as foreign by the recipient’s immune system. Immunosuppressive therapy reduces this immune-mediated rejection and supports graft survival over time. Because treatment is lifelong, patient selection and ongoing medical monitoring are central to maintaining the transplant while managing the demands of sustained immune control.
Successful reconstruction requires coordinated repair of multiple tissue types, including bone, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and skin. Microsurgical transplantation reconnects these structures so the graft can remain viable and potentially support movement, sensation, and appearance. The need to restore several interdependent systems makes this procedure more complex than replacing a single isolated tissue.
Careful donor matching helps identify a donor hand that is appropriate for the intended recipient before transplantation. Matching is one part of the broader process that also includes microsurgical connection, immunosuppressive treatment, rehabilitation, and monitoring. Its importance reflects the need to balance reconstructive goals with the challenges of protecting a donor-derived graft from immune-mediated rejection.
Rehabilitation is essential for translating a technically successful transplant into useful recovery. It supports the patient during the process of regaining potential movement and sensation while the connected tissues recover and function together. Rehabilitation therefore works alongside microsurgery and medical monitoring, helping assess functional progress rather than treating graft survival as the only outcome.
Hand allotransplantation may be considered for selected patients with severe limb loss when reconstructive goals include restoring potential movement, sensation, and appearance. It provides an alternative to prosthetic reconstruction, but the decision must account for donor matching, lifelong immunosuppressive therapy, rehabilitation, and continued monitoring. These requirements make careful selection an essential part of clinical planning.
Beyond its reconstructive role, hand allotransplantation provides a clinical model for studying immune tolerance, nerve regeneration, and complex tissue repair. These areas connect transplant medicine with broader questions about how the immune system can accept donor tissue and how multiple repaired structures can recover together. Its clinical outcomes therefore contribute to both patient care and biomedical research.