Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10067480 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.13203 | DOI Listing |
Ann Surg Open
September 2024
From the Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Institute For Digestive & Liver Diseases, B L Kapoor-Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.
JAMA Surg
December 2024
Department of Plastic Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki. Puistosairaala, HUS, Finland.
Importance: Since 2005, a total of 50 face transplants have been reported from 18 centers in 11 countries. The overall survival of the grafts has not yet been established.
Objective: To assess the survival of the face transplant grafts and evaluate factors potentially influencing it.
JAMA
November 2024
Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York.
Importance: Catastrophic facial injury with globe loss remains a formidable clinical problem with no previous reports of reconstruction by whole eye or combined whole eye and facial transplant.
Objective: To develop a microsurgical strategy for combined whole eye and facial transplant and describe the clinical findings during the first year following transplant.
Design, Setting, And Participant: A 46-year-old man who sustained a high-voltage electrical injury with catastrophic tissue loss to his face and left globe underwent combined whole eye and face transplant using personalized surgical devices and a novel microsurgical strategy at a specialized center for vascularized composite allotransplantation.
Cell Stem Cell
September 2024
Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address:
CD54 and CD58 are adhesion proteins that mediate efficient immune synapse formation. Hammer et al. now show that the abrogation of these molecules in T and NK cells prevents their immune rejection while maintaining their effector function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Respir Crit Care Med
October 2024
Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari Institut d'Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT-CERCA) Sabadell, Spain.
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!