One of the leading hand-transplant surgeons in America
FoxLA.com: The surgeons began the complex work of attaching tendons, blood vessels and nerves to complete the surgery, which concluded at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. After the surgery, the patient was brought back to her room, where she was met by grateful members of her family. She remains at the medical center and will begin extensive physical rehabilitation and a regimen of immunosuppressant medication to help prevent her body from rejecting the new appendage. "I am ecstatic with the results -- a little tired, but ecstatic," said lead surgeon Dr. Kodi (Khodadad) Azari, surgical director of the UCLA Hand Transplant Program and associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and plastic surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, at the conclusion of the marathon surgery. "Everything went well," Azari said. "The size, color and hair pattern match between the donor and recipient is nearly identical. We are so proud to have been able to give our patient the gift of a new hand." >>>
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