Surgeons who pioneered the procedures are hoping that this will persuade more bereaved families to overcome taboos associated with donating facial tissuedoi:10.1016/S0262-4079(08)62158-2CoghlanAndyNew Scientist
That's significantly better than survival for other types of transplant, said the team of Finnish researchers. For example, at 10 years post-surgery, survival for liver transplants reaches 61% and for heart transplants the number is 65%, they noted. "The first 50 face transplants in the w...
Doctors are seeing new progress in several of the first full-face transplant recipients in the United States. Researchers are reporting several of the patients have experienced changes in how blood vessels in their faces reorganized themselves. The finding could be key for planning future face ...
movies have insinuated that transplant recipients look exactly like the donor after the operation. In the 1997 movie, “Face/Off,” John Travolta and Nicolas Cage cleanly trade faces and take on each other’s appearance, something that couldn’t possibly occur...
As a testament to the success of transplantation surgery, many transplant patientsare now seeking aesthetic surgery. 展开 关键词: Cosmetic surgery - Transplant recipients - Survey - Immunosuppression DOI: 10.1007/s00266-009-9417-x 被引量: 9 ...
Candidates for, and recipients of, transplants face numerous risks that receive varying degrees of attention from the media and transplant professionals. C... RB Freeman,JT Cohen - 《American Journal of Transplantation》 被引量: 85发表: 2008年 ...
摘要: Guidelines for infection prevention and management in solid organ transplant recipients have been published by the American Society of Transplantation. The classic principles of infection after solidDOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-253-7_37 年份: 2011 ...
Each of the transplant recipients underwent preoperative CT with 3-D visualization. To build each life-size skull model, the CT images of the transplant recipient's head were segmented and processed using customized software, creating specialized data files that were input into a 3-D printer. ...
highly effective vaccines. There's two pockets of vulnerability, to point, young children, who we will eventually be able to vaccinate, and then people who are immune-incompetent. They can't mount an effective response to the vaccines because they are organ transplant patients, because they're...
The pattern of mucocutaneous infections and infestations in renal transplant recipients. Immunosuppression-related mucocutaneous lesions are a significant problem in renal transplant recipients. Infections account for the majority of these mani... K Sandhu,S Gupta,B Kumar,... - 《Journal of Dermatology...