Hand transplant surgery
This image shows a hand transplant surgery carried out with extreme precision, connecting the tendons from donors hand to the recipient! The donor hand usually comes from a brain-dead donor and is transplanted to a recipient who have suffered a hand/arm amputation or extreme loss of function due to injury or illness. The goal is to help the recipient to return to modified work. Just as in any other transplantation done (kidney, liver, heart), the recipient is given immunosuppressive drugs, as the body's natural immune system will try to reject, or destroy, the hand.Surgical complications includes vascular thrombosis that may require further surgical intervention, and development of necrosis in the transplanted hand and forearm requiring skin graft.
