This Research Topic brings together specialists from psychological, surgical, ethical, immunological and historical and patient perspectives to evaluate the impact and future of VCA as a form of surgical innovation, with a core focus on comparative dimensions across Europe and the United States. Articles will explore a range of perspectives, case studies and approaches, as well as questions of disfigurement and adaptation by surgery and prostheses, mental health, physiotherapy and the wide range of interventions in which VCA is situated in military and civilian contexts.
Since the 1990s, VCA has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional forms of reconstructive surgery, though it remains fairly rare. Ethical questions about costs, immunosuppressant risks, rejection and a lack of patient outcomes continue, and despite more focus on the psychosocial dimensions of hand and face transplants in particular, clinical and patient-reported outcomes have seldom been considered in relation to other interventions, including traditional reconstructive and regenerative alternatives.
The themes that can be covered in this Research Topic include:
- Vascularized Composite Allografts
- Patient reported outcomes
- Qualitative research
- Reconstruction and regeneration techniques
- Consensus building
- International comparisons
- Data sharing
- Psychological protocols,
- Ethics
- Regenerative technology
- Bioengineering
- Gender
- Ethnicity
This Research Topic brings together specialists from psychological, surgical, ethical, immunological and historical and patient perspectives to evaluate the impact and future of VCA as a form of surgical innovation, with a core focus on comparative dimensions across Europe and the United States. Articles will explore a range of perspectives, case studies and approaches, as well as questions of disfigurement and adaptation by surgery and prostheses, mental health, physiotherapy and the wide range of interventions in which VCA is situated in military and civilian contexts.
Since the 1990s, VCA has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional forms of reconstructive surgery, though it remains fairly rare. Ethical questions about costs, immunosuppressant risks, rejection and a lack of patient outcomes continue, and despite more focus on the psychosocial dimensions of hand and face transplants in particular, clinical and patient-reported outcomes have seldom been considered in relation to other interventions, including traditional reconstructive and regenerative alternatives.
The themes that can be covered in this Research Topic include:
- Vascularized Composite Allografts
- Patient reported outcomes
- Qualitative research
- Reconstruction and regeneration techniques
- Consensus building
- International comparisons
- Data sharing
- Psychological protocols,
- Ethics
- Regenerative technology
- Bioengineering
- Gender
- Ethnicity
