Status 5 Years after Bilateral Hand Transplantation

Graft survival and function early after hand transplantation is good. It remains unknown, however, whether long‐term survival is limited by chronic rejection. We here describe the clinical course and the status 5 years after bilateral hand transplantation with emphasis on immunosuppression (IS), function, morphology and graft vascular changes.

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