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Scott's is the first hand transplant of its type in the U.S. and one of only eight worldwide. (Reattaching a patient's own severed hand is far more common.) So far, his transplant team, led by Dr. Warren Breidenbach, at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Dr. Jon Jones, now at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., seems to have overcome the most formidable challenge of such a procedure--long-term limb rejection. While immune-suppressant drugs have improved the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants, the arm is composed of several different tissues...
...their animal experiments, in which flaps of bone, tendon and muscle were attached to young pigs for up to three months, the doctors convinced their review boards at the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital that a hand transplant was, as the team's chief surgeon, Dr. Warren C. Breidenbach of Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, put it, "the next logical step...
...FRANCIS A. BREIDENBACH Granada Hills, Calif...
...Stader reduction splint" was devised in 1931 by Veterinary Otto Stader (of Ardmore, Pa.) because his canine patients gnawed plaster casts off their legs. When Drs. Kenneth Lewis and Lester Breidenbach of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital saw a Stader splint on a dog, they were impressed at once with the fact that it drew the broken bones back into their normal position and served as a convenient splint while they grew together again...
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