Yesterday I saw, on the Internet, a news that impressed me: In Spain, become successful transplant toes on hand.
Indeed, the surgeon´s team, Francisco del Piñal, in Cantabria, has exceeded 400 operations, with 99% success. They have already helped many people, who have had amputations, by accident or birth defects. I would like to show you a video, that explains very well what this technique is. If you want to watch the video, please click below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/telediario/tdfs3-manos-250115/2964174/
Francisco del Piñal (Surgeon): “Right now, it still has wounds….”
Voice in off: “Jorge lost his thumb, climbing, a month and a half ago. It seemed very strange the possibility of retrieval, by transplantation of big toe; but, he decided to do so, knowing the numerous precedents, with a favorable outcome”
Jorge Rodríguez (Thumb transplanted): “Sometimes, I see improving it enough, you see fewer scars, it is a little less thick, because, at first, it is swollen, everything is very thick, you have much scar ... but, well, I am happy, by the moment”.
Voice in off: “Amets also lost her thumb, in an accident; she was only two years old……….They have spent four, since it was transplanted the finger to her and the scar is the only sequel to what happened ....... Transfer toes, to the hand, holds a key to success: the correct connection of all structures: arteries and veins have between half and one millimeter, in diameter; microscope must intervene”.
Francisco: “We go to the hand and connect it....; but, before, this is synthesized; after, tendons; and nerves after; and what gives life to the finger: that is the artery, in order that blood goes in and vein, to leave it”
Voice in off: “Lucia's case is different: she was born with the thumb and pinky short; it was lengthened by them and implanted two toes, to configure this hand, with which she greet us”
Paula Cuesta (Lucía´s mother): “The result we have there. The girl .... gets by on her own perfectly, she plays .....”
Juan Carlos de la Fuente (Editorial office Cantabria): “Antonio suffered an accident two years ago,that brought his left hand, at the level of the wrist. On the stump, with 3 toes and metatarsal, Dr. Piñal built in two operations, this funcionale limb, with strength and sensitivity, which allows him to get by on his own”
Antonio Fernandez (Transplanted): “And you see, over time, that you can cut a steak, you can tie your shoelaces, you can drive --in fact, I already drive—“
Juan Carlos de la Fuente: “For all, the accident has left a bad memory, almost erased by a new opportunity, offered by their own body”
Well, I think that it it incredible; therefore, I should like to tell congratulations the Doctor on his work, because it can help many people.
And I hope that researches continue studying, in order to discover other advances, to help much more people.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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