Patrick Hardison before his facial transplant operation (left) and in November 2015, nearly three months after the surgery. Hardison was badly burned as a firefighter in 2001, leaving his entire face and scalp covered in skin grafts and scarring. In a 26-hour operation on Aug. 14-15, 2015...
Indications include recent (<24h old), clean wounds where viable tissue is tension-free and approximation and eversion of skin edges is achievable. Wound is treated with irrigation and debridement and the tissue margins are approximated using simple methods or with sutures, grafts or flaps. Wound ...
The goal of these studies was to develop a method to produce a neotrachea containing an epithelium, a vascularized sub-epithelial layer, and a surrounding layer of engineered cartilage. Our results demonstrate that split-thickness skin grafts, combined with engineered scaffold-free cartilage sheets ...
Patrick Hardison before his facial transplant operation (left) and in November 2015, nearly three months after the surgery. Hardison was badly burned as a firefighter in 2001, leaving his entire face and scalp covered in skin grafts and scarring. In a 26-hour operation on Aug. 14-15, 2015...