手移植

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Why choose 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康 for hand transplantation?

Through the 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康手移植 Program, we provide hand transplant surgery and research the newest, 突破性的技术. We founded our program in 2010, establishing the first hand transplant program on the West Coast. 从那以后的几年里, 我们不断提供专家, lifechanging care for patients who have lost a hand.

我们课程的亮点包括:

地区和国家领导人: Our surgeons completed the first hand transplant surgery on the West Coast in 2010, making 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康 the fourth center in the nation to perform this procedure. 当你选择我们的团队, you receive care from some of the most experienced hand transplant surgeons in the country. 今天, our doctors continue to use the latest techniques in this powerful treatment, bringing hope and healing to those who have lost a hand.

以团队为基础的护理: 我们的团队包括移植服务手部手术; 整形手术, 骨科手术, 精神病学, 病理。, 麻醉学内科、血液学、放射学, 神经学、道德和康复服务. Recognized leaders in these fields provide you with comprehensive, expert care.

研究治疗方法: 作为一流的学术中心, our physicians stay up to date on the newest hand transplant surgical techniques. We participate in research that allows us to bring you groundbreaking therapies and proven treatments.

什么是手部移植?

在手部移植手术中, surgeons operate to give you new hands if you have had one or both surgically removed (amputated). You may also have a hand transplant if you’ve suffered an injury that led to extreme loss of hand function. This highly complex procedure involves transplanting bones, 动脉, 静脉, 神经, 肌腱和皮肤.

谁有资格做手部移植手术?

Our team selectively chooses appropriate candidates for hand transplantation. To be eligible, you must be between ages 18 and 60 and have:

An amputation at the wrist or forearm
An amputation that wasn’t due to cancer or a birth defect
整体健康状况良好
No serious infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV

如果你符合资格标准, you undergo an evaluation that typically includes a physical exam and questions about your medical and family history. 你也有:

血液工作
Imaging tests such as MRI, CT or X-ray
心理健康评估

How do I get a donor limb for a hand transplant?

After being accepted into the program, you’re placed on a waiting list until a suitable donor limb becomes available. Hand and arm donations aren’t part of the driver’s license organ donation registry. Instead, we work with families to go through a special consent process for donor hands and arms.

Choosing the right donor limb is key to the success of a hand transplant. We take care to match donor’s hand size, 肤色和色调, gender and ethnicity to that of the recipient. 一个遗产 coordinates suitable donor limb matching to improve surgery results.

What to expect with a hand transplant

Once you're on the hand transplant waiting list, our team reaches out to you to schedule surgery as soon as we have a donor limb for you. Surgery can last up to 12 hours and requires a team of highly specialized surgeons working together.

You recover in the intensive care unit (ICU) for a few days after surgery. Most patients continue recovery in the hospital for between one and three months. The length of your hospital stay depends on multiple factors, including how far you live from 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康 and how much support at home during recovery.

手部移植后会发生什么?

As with many other types of transplants, you take immunosuppressive medications after surgery to lower your risk of rejecting the graft. You also undergo intensive rehabilitation to restore hand function. You usually start rehab within 48 hours of surgery and continue for several months.

Patients participating in our 手移植 Program undergo periodic biopsies and lab evaluations. They need to stay in Los Angeles for postoperative monitoring for a period after surgery.

认识团队

皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康 physicians work at the forefront of research and innovation, continually setting and raising the standard in quality care. As only of only a few hand transplant programs in the nation, we use an experienced team-based approach and advanced skills to provide exceptional hand transplant care. 了解更多关于我们的专家.

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