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- Title
First hand transplant procedure in Australia: outcome at 2 years.
- Authors
Dwyer, Karen M; Webb, Angela R; Furniss, Hayley S; Anjou, Katie E; Gibbs-Dwyer, Josephine M; McCombe, David B; Grinsell, Damien G; Dickinson, Gillian F; Williams, Richard A; Russell, Prudence A; Scott, David A; Baker, Christopher; Vogrin, Simon J; Langham, Robyn G; Opdam, Helen I; Morrison, Wayne A
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 65-year old man who is asplenic and a four-limb amputee. It states that in 2006 he developed a pneumococcal sepsis on a background of a traumatic splenectomy in 1974. He has a number of solar keratoses, impaired glucose tolerance, and an ex-smoker. The man undergone volar structures repair, anastomosis of ulnar artery, and immunosuppressive therapy.
- Subjects
AMPUTEES; SPLENECTOMY; KERATOSIS; GLUCOSE intolerance; EX-smokers; SURGICAL anastomosis; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE agents; PATIENTS
- Publication
Medical Journal of Australia, 2013, Vol 199, Issue 4, p285
- ISSN
0025-729X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5694/mja12.11554