Limb Transplant Gel: Saving Hands, Feet and Faces | Medical News and Health Information

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Limb Transplant Gel: Saving Hands, Feet and Faces | Medical News and Health Information



Professor Jeff Karp, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and his team have developed a new hydrogel technology that delivers immune suppressant drugs locally to minimize the toxic side effects. Richard Mangino, a quadruple amputee and now the first successful double hand transplant patient, can play the piano again.

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