News tagged with hand transplant
A new hand -- and signs of sensory recovery
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Four months after a successful hand transplant -- 35 years after amputation in an industrial accident at age 19 -- a 54-year-old man's emerging sense of touch is registered in the former "hand area" of the ...
1st US 2-hand transplant patient yearns to feel
Jul 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a litte bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife's hands when he holds ...
Marine moves fingers after rare hand transplant
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Surgeons have transplanted a hand onto a Marine who was hurt in a training accident, and he has some movement in his fingers, according to the hospital where the operation occurred.
French hospital performs face, hand transplants
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.
In double transplant, left hand works first
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When patients had both hands transplanted, their brains re-established connections much more quickly with the left hand than the right, a team of researchers in France reports.
Double hand transplant taking place in Pittsburgh
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
Double hand transplant patient recovering well
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Valarie Kepner was so excited at learning last fall that doctors might be able give her husband new hands that she called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center without telling him first.
Double hand transplant patient out of hospital
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The mother of the nation's first double hand transplant patient says he's out of the hospital and looking forward to returning to his wife and daughter in Georgia.
