The delicate balance of hand transplants
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 19:42
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Kodi Azari, surgery director of UCLA's new center, talks about the complicated but rewarding work and why balance is crucial to a well-functioning new hand. A successful hand transplant has a long list of ingredients: a motivated patient; a team of plastic surgeons, orthopedists, neurosurgeons and others to reattach bone, ligaments, nerves and blood vessels; and a suitable donor hand that...