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11150990

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-24
pubmed:abstractText
In September 1998, a surgical team in Lyon, France, performed the first successful hand transplant. After this historic event, in January 1999, the University of Louisville performed the first hand transplant in the United States. These events sparked interest and debate concerning the justification of performing limb allotransplantation. The field of composite tissue allotransplantation (CTA) has made significant advances in the past two decades, yet advancement of the applications of CTA into the clinical arena had been fairly limited to this point. The most inherent controversy in CTA involves the fact that the clinical applications for the most part involve restoration of function and/or structural integrity. These procedures are done essentially for quality-of-life concerns, not life-saving issues. Present concern involves subjecting CTA recipients to a lifetime of postoperative immunosuppressive therapy. We cannot fully understand where we stand at present and in what future directions the field is heading unless we have an understanding of where we have been in composite tissue transplantation. This article reviews the historical aspects of CTA, discusses the present state of CTA, and speculates on potential future applications of CTA.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0738-1085
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
393-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Past, present, and future research in the field of composite tissue allotransplantation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, NJ, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Historical Article