News From the Cause
Surgeons salvage hand nerves of double-transplant patient at Jewish Hospital: (COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE)
August 26, 2010
Doctors completed the region's first double-hand transplant Wednesday, replacing a man's burned, non-functional hands with two new ones. “It looks very good at this point,” Dr. Joseph E. Kutz, a hand surgeon with Kleinert Kutz and Associates said at a 3 p.m. press conference, about half an hour after surgery ended. The experimental surgery at Jewish Hospital Hand Care Center — the nation's third double-hand transplant after two in Pittsburgh — took about 17.5 hours. click here to view
