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The AAPS 102nd Annual Meeting
May 18-21, 2024 | The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
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Reports Of The Immunologic Management Of The World’S First Successful Combined Face And Whole-eye Transplant
Poster Presenter
Authors
David Tran, Alay Shah, Sachin Chinta, Bruce Gelb, Massimo Mangiola, Daniel Ceradini, Eduardo Rodriguez
Affiliations
Part of Topic
General Reconstruction
Reports of the Immunologic Management of the First Successful Combined Face and Whole-Eye Transplant
•Since the first face transplant (FT) in 2005, significant strides have been made in our technical and immunologic understanding
•Coinciding with recent improved understandings of immunologic processes and rejection, whole-eye transplant (WET) can be revisited
Objectives:
1.Outline the first successful case of a combine FT-WET
2.Review immunologic management and early outcomes following success transplantation