Bilateral hand transplantation: Functional benefits assessment in five patients with a mean follow-up of 7.6 years (range 4-13 years).

Between January 2000 and July 2009, five adults who had suffered bilateral traumatic below-elbow amputations, received bilateral hand-forearm allografts performed by the Lyon team. We report the functional benefits achieved over a mean follow-up period of 7.6 years (range 4-13 years), up to December 31st, 2013.

[Hand allografts: experience from Lyon team].

Hand allograft is a method in the stage of clinical experimentation, which is reserved in France for the treatment of bilateral traumatic amputees. This study reports the Lyon team experience, which is pioneer in this domain. Four patients (3 males and 1 female) underwent seven (one unilateral and three bilateral) hand transplantations from September 1998 to February 2007.

[Magnetic resonance angiography of stents].

Purpose: To understand the behavior of stents during contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA).

Materials And Methods: Seven different types of stents are explored in vitro with spin echo (SE) T2 sequence and MRA sequences using classification of the intra-prothesis signal. Six patients with 11 different proximal stents are studied by Gadolinium enhanced MRA with the same classification.

[Leg embolisms: treatment via surgical embolectomy].

Arterial thrombembolectomy with the Fogarty balloon catheter was the standard therapy until now. We present fifty three patients who underwent 63 embolectomies. The rate of leg salvage was 95%, mortality was 18.