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Canada’s first hand transplant performed
at UHNIT TRANSFORMATION

Dr. Steven McCabe was part of the “We are very proud to have successfully performed
this forearm and hand transplant procedure,” said
suRrEgiScaElAteRamCHthAatNpDerfIoNrmNeOdVthAeTION Dr. McCabe, Director of TWH’s Hand and Upper
Extremity Transplant Program.
world’s first hand transplant in 1999 in “This is a tremendous accomplishment involving
Louisville, Kentucky. many people across several programs, and we are
Fast forward 17 years and Dr. McCabe has made the excited to make this treatment possible and available
possibility of hand transplants in Canada a reality, for patients who would benefit from it.”
The procedure lasted approximately 14 hours and
leading a multi-dMiscIiCpHlinEaNryEtReamINoTfEexGpRerAtsTtIoOcNomplete involved 18 surgeons of a variety of different surgical
disciplines from a number of hospitals.
the country’s first transplant of the upper limb.
The team at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) Link to full story: click here.
successfully attached the hand and forearm from a
donor to a patient who had lost her arm below the
elbow in an accident several years ago.

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Getting to the last few steps of the procedure, surgeons (including Dr. Steven McCabe, 39
second from the left) attach the muscles and plan how to suture the skin. (Photo: UHN)

Year in Review 2015 – 2016