Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Laboratory,
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Laboratory
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Nerve allografting represents a unique situation.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Feb, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11818887
What's new in plastic surgery.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons Mar, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11894856
Recipient bone marrow engraftment in donor tissue after long-term tolerance to a composite tissue allograft.
Transplantation Jun, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12131681
[Reconstructive surgery using composite tissue allografts: perspectives from the first clinical cases].
Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthétique Jun, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12148230
Composite tissue allotransplantation and reconstructive surgery: first clinical applications.
Annals of surgery Jan, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12496526
Split tolerance to a composite tissue allograft in a swine model.
Transplantation Jan, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12544866
Surface landmarks to locate the thenar branch of the median nerve: an anatomical study.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Apr, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12655205
Replantation in the mutilated hand.
Hand clinics Feb, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12683449
Free omental tissue transfer for extremity coverage and revascularization.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12711950
First successful replantation of face and scalp with single-artery repair: model for face and scalp transplantation.
Annals of plastic surgery May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12792546
Safe treatment of trigger finger with longitudinal and transverse landmarks: an anatomic study of the border fingers for percutaneous release.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Sep, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12973214
Prolongation of skin allograft survival after neonatal injection of donor bone marrow and epidermal cells.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jan, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 14707646
Face transplantation: where do we stand?
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Apr, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15060357
Tolerance to composite tissue allografts across a major histocompatibility barrier in miniature swine.
Transplantation Feb, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15084927
Composite tissue allotransplantation--a new era in plastic surgery?
British journal of plastic surgery Jul, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15191817
Heterotopic limb allotransplantation model to study skin rejection in the rat.
Microsurgery , 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15499552
Optimizing independent finger flexion with zone V flexor repairs using the Massachusetts General Hospital flexor tenorrhaphy and early protected active motion.
The Journal of hand surgery Mar, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15781344
Long-term acceptance of renal allografts following prenatal inoculation with adult bone marrow.
Transplantation Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16314799
Systematic analysis of composite tissue allograft rejection.
Transplantation Feb, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16477214
Anticoagulation therapy in microsurgery: a review.
The Journal of hand surgery May-Jun, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16713852
Porcine heterotopic composite tissue allograft transplantation using a large animal model for preclinical studies.
Chang Gung medical journal May-Jun, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16924888
From experimental rat hindlimb to clinical face composite tissue allotransplantation: historical background and current status.
Microsurgery , 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17091477
The use of external skeletal fixation to facilitate the surgical release of wrist flexion and thumb web space contractures.
The Journal of hand surgery Dec, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17145382
Pharmacologic approaches to composite tissue allograft.
The Journal of hand surgery Jan, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17218183
Intrinsic ability of GM+IL-4 but not Flt3L-induced rat dendritic cells to promote allogeneic T cell hyporesponsiveness.
Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) May, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17276735
Allopeptide-pulsed dendritic cells and composite tissue allograft survival.
Microsurgery , 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17290380
Cellular therapies for prolongation of composite tissue allograft transplantation.
Clinics in plastic surgery Apr, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17418678
Comparison of biodegradable conduits within aged rat sciatic nerve defects.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery May, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17440364
The surgeon's role and responsibility in facial tissue allograft transplantation.
Annals of plastic surgery Jun, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17522479
Anatomical relationships among the median nerve thenar branch, superficial palmar arch, and transverse carpal ligament.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17700123
Immunologic approaches to composite tissue allograft.
The Journal of hand surgery Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17826565
Strauch's technique for epigastric free flaps in rats revisited: a simple and effective method to increase patency rates.
Journal of reconstructive microsurgery Aug, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17975769
The clinical applications of peripheral nerve imaging in the upper extremity.
The Journal of hand surgery Dec, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 18070652
Rapamycin-conditioned, alloantigen-pulsed dendritic cells promote indefinite survival of vascularized skin allografts in association with T regulatory cell expansion.
Transplant immunology Feb, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18158116
Prolongation of composite tissue allograft survival by immature recipient dendritic cells pulsed with donor antigen and transient low-dose immunosuppression.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jan, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18176204
Anatomical landmarks to the superficial and deep palmar arches.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jan, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18176219
The vertical and extended rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap for irradiated thigh and groin defects.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jul, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18594402
Anatomic landmarks for the radial tunnel.
Eplasty , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18668182
Swine hemi-facial composite tissue allotransplantation: a model to study immune rejection.
The Journal of surgical research May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 18708190
13-year experience of carpal tunnel release using the Indiana Tome technique.
The Journal of hand surgery Sep, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18762096
Soft tissue sarcomas of the hand: functional reconstruction and outcome analysis.
Hand (New York, N.Y.) Sep, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18780101
Variations in the anatomy of the third common digital nerve and landmarks to avoid injury to the third common digital nerve with carpal tunnel release.
Eplasty , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19050753
Alloantigen-pulsed host dendritic cells induce T-cell regulation and prolong allograft survival in a rat model of hindlimb allotransplantation.
The Journal of surgical research May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19101689
Daily topical tacrolimus therapy prevents skin rejection in a rodent hind limb allograft model.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Feb, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19182660
A model for functional recovery and cortical reintegration after hemifacial composite tissue allotransplantation.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Feb, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19182661
Mesenchymal stem cells prolong composite tissue allotransplant survival in a swine model.
Transplantation Jun, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19543052
An anomalous muscle predisposing to the development of hypothenar hammer syndrome.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19644244
[Immunosuppression in hand transplantation: state of the art and future perspectives].
Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie : Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handchirurgie : Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgie der Peripheren Nerven und Gefässe : Organ der Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19688652
Dorsal dislocation of the lunate with distal radius fracture.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Dec, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19952615
Composite tissue vasculopathy and degeneration following multiple episodes of acute rejection in reconstructive transplantation.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Feb, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20041866
Discussion. First U.S. near-total human face transplantation: a paradigm shift for massive complex injuries.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20048605
Composite tissue allotransplantation: hand transplantation and beyond.
The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Mar, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20190102
T regulatory cells and transplantation tolerance.
Transplantation reviews (Orlando, Fla.) Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20541385
Combined administration of a mutant TGF-beta1/Fc and rapamycin promotes induction of regulatory T cells and islet allograft tolerance.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20844194
Mouse hind limb transplantation: a new composite tissue allotransplantation model using nonsuture supermicrosurgery.
Transplantation Dec, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21076369
An evidence-based approach to carpal tunnel syndrome.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Dec, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21124161
Hand allotransplantation.
Seminars in plastic surgery Feb, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21286301
Inpatient rehabilitation challenges in a quadrimembral amputee after bilateral hand transplantation.
American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation / Association of Academic Physiatrists Aug, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21765280
The effect of chondroitinase on nerve regeneration following composite tissue allotransplantation.
The Journal of hand surgery Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21788107
Technical aspects of the recipient operation in hand transplantation.
Journal of reconstructive microsurgery Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21811969
Concomitant face and hand transplantation: perfect solution or perfect storm?
Annals of plastic surgery Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21836456
An optimized dual-surgeon simultaneous orthotopic hind-limb allotransplantation model in rats.
Journal of reconstructive microsurgery Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21863543
开发和验证过程来找出可行的骨髓细胞从尸体器官捐助者为复合器官移植的脊椎。
Cytotherapy Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21905958
Assessing the impact of antibiotic prophylaxis in outpatient elective hand surgery: a single-center, retrospective review of 8,850 cases.
The Journal of hand surgery Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21975095
The current state of hand transplantation.
The Journal of hand surgery Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22036285
Favoring the risk-benefit balance for upper extremity transplantation--the Pittsburgh Protocol.
Hand clinics Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22051391
Surgical and technical aspects of hand transplantation: is it just another replant?
Hand clinics Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22051392
Hand transplantation.
Hand clinics Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22051398
Helping hands: caring for the upper extremity transplant patient.
Critical care nursing clinics of North America Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22054824
Discussion: The Brigham and Women's Hospital face transplant program: a look back.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22186588
Hemiface allotransplantation in the mouse.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Apr, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22456359
Anesthetic management in upper extremity transplantation: the Pittsburgh experience.
Anesthesia and analgesia Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22745115
Upper-extremity transplantation using a cell-based protocol to minimize immunosuppression.
Annals of surgery Feb, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23001085
Mechanisms and mediators of inflammation: potential models for skin rejection and targeted therapy in vascularized composite allotransplantation.
Clinical & developmental immunology , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23049603
Minimizing immunosuppression in hand transplantation.
Expert review of clinical immunology Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23078064
Real-time three-dimensional Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography video image guided microsurgeries.
Journal of biomedical optics Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23224164
Review of the early diagnoses and assessment of rejection in vascularized composite allotransplantation.
Clinical & developmental immunology , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23431325
Standardizing skin biopsy sampling to assess rejection in vascularized composite allotransplantation.
Clinical transplantation Mar-Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23452279
Targeting the Kv1.3 potassium channel for immunosuppression in vascularized composite allotransplantation - a pilot study.
Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23489391
Functional outcomes following multiple acute rejections in experimental vascularized composite allotransplantation.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23629111
Near-infrared lymphography as a minimally invasive modality for imaging lymphatic reconstitution in a rat orthotopic hind limb transplantation model.
Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23879384
Discussion: Lessons learned from simultaneous face and bilateral hand allotransplantation.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23897340
Impact of donor-specific antibodies in reconstructive transplantation.
Expert review of clinical immunology Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24070047
Current concepts and systematic review of vascularized composite allotransplantation of the abdominal wall.
Clinical transplantation Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24102820
Immunomodulatory Effects of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells: Fact or Fiction?
BioMed research international , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24106704
Cutaneous collateral axonal sprouting re-innervates the skin component and restores sensation of denervated Swine osteomyocutaneous alloflaps.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24204901
Clinical application of the FACES score for face transplantation.
The Journal of craniofacial surgery Jan, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24240764
ASSH Presidential Address: power of inclusion.
The Journal of hand surgery Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24275053
Above-elbow (supracondylar) arm transplantation: clinical considerations and surgical technique.
Techniques in hand & upper extremity surgery Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24275765
Monocytes loaded with indocyanine green as active homing contrast agents permit optical differentiation of infectious and non-infectious inflammation.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24282595
An American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) task force report on hand surgery subspecialty certification and ASSH membership.
The Journal of hand surgery Feb, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24342262
Forearm transplantation osteosynthesis using modified ulnar shortening osteotomy technique.
The Journal of hand surgery Jan, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24369942
Face transplant teams and the collaboration imperative.
JAMA facial plastic surgery Mar-Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24407426
Establishing cephalometric landmarks for the translational study of Le Fort-based facial transplantation in Swine: enhanced applications using computer-assisted surgery and custom cutting guides.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24445879
The neck as a preferred recipient site for vascularized composite allotransplantation in the mouse.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Feb, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24469184
Using the dorsal, cavernosal, and external pudendal arteries for penile transplantation: technical considerations and perfusion territories.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jul, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24622570
Donor age negatively affects the immunoregulatory properties of both adipose and bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells.
Transplant immunology May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24632513
Characterization, prophylaxis, and treatment of infectious complications in craniomaxillofacial and upper extremity allotransplantation: a multicenter perspective.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24675206
Lymphoid neogenesis in skin of human hand, nonhuman primate, and rat vascularized composite allografts.
Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation Sep, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24853399
The misuse of the terminology "standard of care" hampers innovations in surgery.
Annals of surgery Dec, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24854452
Insights from computational modeling in inflammation and acute rejection in limb transplantation.
PloS one , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24926998
Histomorphometric evaluation of ischemia-reperfusion injury and the effect of preservation solutions histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate and University of Wisconsin in limb transplantation.
Transplantation Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25073033
Functional abdominal wall reconstruction using an innervated abdominal wall vascularized composite tissue allograft: a cadaveric study and review of the literature.
Journal of reconstructive microsurgery Jan, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25184615
Hand and upper extremity transplantation: an update of outcomes in the worldwide experience.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Feb, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25401735
Stem cell-based approaches to improve nerve regeneration: potential implications for reconstructive transplantation?
Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis Feb, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25428664
MEMS-based handheld fourier domain Doppler optical coherence tomography for intraoperative microvascular anastomosis imaging.
PloS one , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25474742
The Academic Scholar Award of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons: the first 20 years.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Feb, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25626829
Antibiotic prophylaxis for preventing surgical-site infection in plastic surgery: an evidence-based consensus conference statement from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Jun, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25724064
Evaluation of microvascular anastomosis using real-time, ultra-high-resolution, Fourier domain Doppler optical coherence tomography.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Apr, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25811583
Abstract 9: selectively permeable nanofiber constructs to prevent inflammatory scarring and enhance nerve regeneration in peripheral nerve injury.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25942120
Abstract 11: the role of donor antigen persistance in maintaining immune tolerance to a vascularized composite allograft.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25942122
Abstract 105: a non-suture cuff technique for lymph-vein anastomosis in a rat model.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25942216
Exploring cell-based tolerance strategies for hand and face transplantation.
Expert review of clinical immunology Nov, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26289376
Reconstruction of Large Abdominal Wall Defects Using Neurotized Vascular Composite Allografts.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Oct, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26397250
A Novel Method for the Repair of Critically Sized Bone Defects: Utilization of a Muscle Derived Stem Cell-Seeded Scaffold Augments Proliferation, Migration and Osteogenic Induction.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Oct, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26397530
Does Formal Research Training Lead to Academic Success in Plastic Surgery? A Comprehensive Analysis of U.S. Academic Plastic Surgeons.
Journal of surgical education Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26796512
Georg J. Furtmüller*,1,
Byoungchol Oh*,1,
Johanna Grahammer*,2,
Cheng-Hung Lin3,
Robert Sucher4,
Madeline L. Fryer1,
Giorgio Raimondi1,
W.P. Andrew Lee1,
Gerald Brandacher1
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
2Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University,
3Center for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and School of Medicine,
4Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Charite Berlin
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