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Worldwide Performance

From the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), as of July 2022. Available from: https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/about/search-membership/

 
 

  • Over 150 hand/arm transplants in 100 patients have been performed worldwide.¹

  • The country that has performed the most hand/arm transplants is the U.S.

  • Many other countries, including Australia, Austria, China, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, and Turkey, have also performed the procedure.² 

  • In a study about hand/arm transplantation outcomes and survival rates, there were no deaths in the 50 patients who received a hand/arm transplant (unilateral or bilateral) in the US, Australia, and Western Europe (as of 2015).² In these same 50 patients, the graft survival rate of their transplanted limbs was 90.5% as of 2015.²

 

References

Sources

  1. Mendenhall, S. D., Brown, S., Ben-Amotz, O., et al. Building a Hand and Upper Extremity Transplantation Program: Lessons Learned From the First 20 Years of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation. Hand (New York, N.Y.) 2020;15(2):224–233.

  2. Shores JT, Brandacher G, Lee WPA. Hand and Upper Extremity Transplantation: An Update of Outcomes in the Worldwide Experience. Plast Reconstr Surg 2015;135(2):351e-360e.