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The Sensor Glove in Preoperative Conditioning and Postoperative Rehabilitation

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Hand Transplantation

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Hand transplantation represents a unique situation from the biological, clinical, psychological and cognitive point of view. The transplanted hand has to be accepted by the recipient, and the recipient’s nerve fibres have to reinnervate nervous pathways, muscles and sensory receptor organs of the donor’s hand. Various factors influencing the nerve regeneration process in such a situation has been discussed elsewhere [1]. However, the sensory motor functions of the transplanted hand are dependent not only on peripheral events in the transplanted body part, but establishment of central projections of the transplanted hand in the motor as well as somatosensory cortex is essential for the functional outcome. The original amputation injury has — in itself — induced extensive cortical reorganisations in the amputee’s brain with disappearance of the hand representation, and functional recovery in the transplanted hand requires reestablishment of hand projectional areas in the motor and somatosensory cortex.

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  1. Department of Hand Surgery, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Göran Lundborg & Birgitta Rosén

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  1. Italian Institute of Hand Surgery, Monza,Milan, Italy

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  2. University of Canberra, Australia

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  3. International Hand and Composite, Tissue Allograft Society, Australia

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  4. Department of Transplantation, Édouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France

    Jean-Michel Dubernard  & Palmina Petruzzo  & 

  5. Department of Surgery, University of Cagliari, Italy

    Palmina Petruzzo

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Lundborg, G., Rosén, B. (2007). The Sensor Glove in Preoperative Conditioning and Postoperative Rehabilitation. In: Lanzetta, M., Dubernard, JM., Petruzzo, P. (eds) Hand Transplantation. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0374-3_43

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