It has not been out of danger that U.S.A. implements the first both hands transfer operation patient

It has not been out of danger that U.S.A. implements the first both hands transfer operation patient
The medical centre of University of Pittsburgh implements the transfer operation of both hands for patient Jeff and Kepner 57 years old on the 4th. Kepner is in postoperative dangerously and interimly on the 5th, but the health is steady. This is that U.S.A. implements the transfer operation of both hands for the first time, it is the transfer operation of 9th both hands in the world too.
Blood infect accept both hands and both feet cut except that operation before the 10 year such as Kepner, half of the forearms is cut too. " news post of Pittsburgh " reports on the 5th, the operation begins from 8 o'clock in the morning, lasts 9 hours. 10 doctors are divided into 4 groups of operation. Two groups are responsible for performing the operation on Kepner, other two groups are responsible for getting ready to transplant to his both hands and forearm underpart. Both hands transplant operation and go on synchronously.
According to the operation situation introduction which the medical centre of Pittsburgh university releases, this transfer operation is adopted and called " rules of Pittsburgh " Transplantation scheme. The patient will accept the bone-marrow transplantation of the organ donor after organ transplant if the patient accepts.
The scheme is divided into two steps and implements. Use antibodies to prevent the postoperative initial body from presenting the large-scale rejection in transplanting the organ at first, later transplanted the bone marrow of the person who donates organ for the patient. It can make the patient's immune system not regard transplanting the organ as to transplant the bone marrow " Foreign matter " .
This scheme aims at reducing the use which inhibits the immune medicine. Use, inhibit immune medicine from may prevent health from appear the rejection in transplanting the organ, but apt to cause diabetes, hypertension and other diseases.
Kepner will accept the bone-marrow transplantation of the arm donor in postoperative about one week.
Succeed in, transplant history of hand for about 10 year in the world, doctor adopt, inhibit the immune medicine from lighten to rank different response the patient while being many kinds of generally. Adopt " rules of Pittsburgh " ,Kepner only needs to inhibit the immune medicine from treating by a.
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