21 Year-Old Student is First Connecticut Patient to Receive Rare Living-Donor Nerve Transplant; Press Briefings with Lead Surgeon to Discuss Details of Today's Procedure.Plastic Surgery Center
WHO: A rare living-donor nerve transplant is being performed
by team of NJ medical professionals led by Dr. Andrew
Elkwood, M.D. of the Plastic Surgery Center in Shrewsbury,
NJ.
WHAT: Press interviews will be arranged post-surgery to
discuss details of the procedure with lead surgeon, Dr.
Andrew Elkwood, M.D.
WHEN: Interviews with Dr. Elkwood will be arranged
post-surgery (expected to be between 3:00 and 6:00 PM
EST). Patient interviews may be available as early as
tomorrow (Saturday, January 8th), pending recovery.
WHERE: Inquiries will be honored on a first-call basis.
Interviews must be arranged through Melissa Jaffin or
Casey DePalma, Berns Communications Group at 212.994.4660.
WHY: This complex procedure is intended to restore
functionality of a 21 year-old male's arm, paralyzed in a
car accident in August 2003. Through advanced technology,
the doctors make use of nerves donated by living
individuals, to reverse many devastating paralyses.
In May 2004, Dr. Elkwood performed a living-donor nerve transplant transplant or graft Partial or complete organ or other body part removed from one site and attached at another. It may come from the same or a different person or an animal. One from the same person—most often a skin graft—is not rejected. on a 19-year old girl, who has since regained full mobility of her once paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. arm. In addition to living-donor nerve transplants Transplants are an American punk rock/rap rock supergroup. They formed in 1999 when Tim Armstrong of the band Rancid played his friend and roadie Rob Aston some beats he had made using Pro Tools and asked Rob if he would consider contributing lyrics. , Dr. Elkwood made use of cadaverous ca·dav·er·ous adj. 1. Suggestive of death; corpselike. 2. Having a corpselike pallor. nerves while performing the second nerve transplant to take place in the Tri-State area There are a number of places in the United States known as tri-state areas where three states or holdings meet at one point (a tripoint), or in proximity to each other. The two most well-known are for the New York and Chicago metropolitan areas. in January January: see month. 2004. Dr. Elkwood performed the first nerve transplant on the East Coast in March 2003, on a patient who was shot in the arm and leg. The patient has since regained near-complete functionality of his arm and leg. |
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