From UCLA
Dr. Richard Kimble may have spent many a fugitive silver screen hour and more than a few boob tube years chasing after one-limbed killer, but Bruin researchers hope to reach out to and find and help some folks who may have suffered the tragic loss of a hand. As part of their path-breaking opening of a hand transplantation center -- termed the first on the West Coast and only the fourth in the country -- medical experts in Westwood also hope to conduct some key studies on surgical techniques and drugs used to curb rejection of transplanted tissues, research that requires some very special patients to help. While affirming the promise of their prospective handy and magical restorative and repair efforts, the docs do want to work now and in advance with individuals 18 to 60 who had an amputation at the wrist or forearm or below unrelated to cancer or a birth defect and who are generally healthy and especially free of infection with hepatitis B or C or HIV.
Bruin experts see promise in new surgery, also hope to conduct key supportive research
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