Short description:

This book offers comprehensive coverage of reconstructive transplantation surgery. It represents the culmination of decades of practice and research surrounding reconstructive transplantation, including transplantation of upper and lower extremities, face, abdominal wall etc. from donor to recipient.

Chapters are organized from in a formulaic manner covering anatomy, approach, considerations and preparations, case studies, and outcomes. Extensive details on the most challenging parts of transplantation including donor selection, vascular considerations, and the latest research on immunosuppressant drugs, makes this book a triumph of experience from the experts of the world renowned Cleveland Clinic. This book, as is the case with the clinic itself, brings together experts from teams across disciplines in a collaborative effort to illustrate decision-making for various large tissue transplants. Diverse perspectives from head and neck surgery, plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery, microvascular surgery, transplant surgery and even psychology contribute to the wealth of knowledge collected in this volume and broaden the readership.

Reconstructive Transplantation is a must-have resource for surgeons, physicians, and residents in the fields of head and neck surgery, plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery, and trauma surgery.

Long description:

This book offers comprehensive coverage of reconstructive transplantation surgery. It represents the culmination of decades of practice and research surrounding reconstructive transplantation, including transplantation of upper and lower extremities, face, abdominal wall etc. from donor to recipient.

Chapters are organized from in a formulaic manner covering anatomy, approach, considerations and preparations, case studies, and outcomes. Extensive details on the most challenging parts of transplantation including donor selection, vascular considerations, and the latest research on immunosuppressant drugs, makes this book a triumph of experience from the experts of the world renowned Cleveland Clinic. This book, as is the case with the clinic itself, brings together experts from teams across disciplines in a collaborative effort to illustrate decision-making for various large tissue transplants. Diverse perspectives from head and neck surgery, plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery, microvascular surgery, transplant surgery and even psychology contribute to the wealth of knowledge collected in this volume and broaden the readership.

Reconstructive Transplantation is a must-have resource for surgeons, physicians, and residents in the fields of head and neck surgery, plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery, and trauma surgery.

Table of Contents:

History of vascularized composite allotransplantation.- Immunosuppression protocols in VCA transplantation.- Face transplantation: Cleveland Clinic Experience.- Orthognathic Outcomes and Technical Considerations in Vascularized Composite Facial Allotransplantation.- Facial Composite Vascularized Allotransplantation: Barcelona Experience.- Facial Transplantation: First Canadian Experience.- Facial allotransplantation: outcomes and results of Amien/Lyon team.- VCA in head and neck region.- FACE TRANSPLANTATION By OZKAN TEAM (TURKEY).- Facial Transplantation: Nonimmune-related hyperacute graft failure.- The Helsinki Vascularized Composite Allograft Program.- Laryngeal Transplantation, I.- Laryngotracheal Transplant.- UPPER EXTREMITY TRANSPLANTATION.- Hand and upper extremity transplantation.- Hand transplantation program at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India Technical considerations (PART 1).- Hand transplantation program at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India Postsurgical management, Outcomes and Special considerations (Part 2).- Hand Transplantation CM Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery Experience.- Hand Allotransplantation: The Penn Experience.- Upper Extremity Transplantation: The Massachusetts General Hospital Experience.- Upper Extremity Allotransplantation: our long-term experience in Lyon.- Hand transplantation: The Brigham and Women's Hospital experience.- Double hand transplant Monza.- United States Military Hand Allotransplantation.- LOWER EXTREMITY TRANSPLANTATION by OZKAN TEAM (TURKEY).- Quadruple Extremity Transplantation.- Vascularized knee joint allotransplantation.- Abdominal Wall Transplantation.- Abdominal wall transplantation with microsurgical technique.- Deceased Donor Uterus Transplantation.- Uterus Transplant: The Dallas Experience.- Live birth from theworld's first ever successful uterus transplant and the following second case from Turkey: Technical Aspects, surgical and obstetric outcomes.- Conventional Surgical Techniques and Emerging Transplantation in Complex Penile Reconstruction.- Future directions of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.- Ethical Considerations of Living Donation in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.