title: Recipient screening and selection: who is the right candidate for hand transplantation.
abstract: Hand transplantation is an elective non-life saving but quality of life-giving surgery for good candidates that is not without risk. Patient screening and selection is the most critical element to successful transplantation outcomes and cannot be overemphasized in terms of importance in the overall scheme of an active composite tissue allotransplantation (CTA) program. This article discusses the various criteria that are important in the selection of patients for CTA.
authors: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 601 North Caroline Street, Suite 8140C, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. jshores@jhmi.edu
authors: Jaimie T
authors: JT
authors: Shores
mesh_terms: D063987:Hand Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous