July 7, 2003 — Editor's Note: A French-Italian team performed the first hand transplant in September 1998, but the hand had to be removed after 23 months because the patient was not compliant with ...

Face and hand transplantation are relatively new in the world of surgery. The key purpose for transplants is to restore function in patients who have experienced some sort of extreme trauma, but ...

A UCLA anesthesiology team’s use of regional and transplant anesthesia was critical to the success of the first hand transplant on the U.S. West Coast, according to a UCLA Department of Anesthesiology ...

PHILADELPHIA— In a Penn Medicine medical marvel six years in the making, a 28-year-old Swiss man has hands of his own for the first time since he lost his arms and legs to major infection at age 12.

India leads the world in hand transplants, performing 73 by late 2024. Experts credit skilled microsurgeons and coordination but cite low donor rates and complex rehab as ongoing challenges.