ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2024
International consensus recommendations on face transplantation: A 2-step Delphi study.
Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Epidemiological and Surgical Insights Into Concomitant Ocular and Craniofacial Trauma and the Implications for Combined Face and Whole-eye Transplantation.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Reassessing Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Facial Transplantation: Where Are We Now?Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Management Protocol for Ballistic and Other High-Energy Avulsive Facial Injuries-An Update for the 21st Century.Craniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction · 2026Review
- Psychosocial assessment and follow-up in vascularized composite allotransplantation candidates: clinical observations from the Finnish experience.Frontiers in transplantation · 2026Article
- Rewiring faces: advances and outcomes in facial nerve reconstruction after facial vascularized composite allotransplantation.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Review
- The Chauvet 2025 meeting report: an update on current psychosocial research in vascularized composite allotransplantation.Frontiers in transplantation · 2026Article
- Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical humanities approaches redefine surgical 'success'.Medical humanities · 2025Article
- The Lipo-DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction: A Valuable Innovation for Maximizing Abdominal Tissue Volume.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
- Emerging strategies for tissue engineering in vascularized composite allotransplantation: A review.Journal of tissue engineeringReview
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Abstract
Face transplantation is a viable reconstructive approach for severe craniofacial defects. Despite the evolution witnessed in the field, ethical aspects, clinical and psychosocial implications, public perception, and economic sustainability remain the subject of debate and unanswered questions. Furthermore, poor data reporting and sharing, the absence of standardized metrics for outcome evaluation, and the lack of consensus definitions of success and failure have hampered the development of a "transplantation culture" on a global scale. We completed a 2-round online modified Delphi process with 35 international face transplant stakeholders, including surgeons, clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, ethicists, policymakers, and researchers, with a representation of 10 of the 19 face transplant teams that had already performed the procedure and 73% of face transplants. Themes addressed included patient assessment and selection, indications, social support networks, clinical framework, surgical considerations, data on patient progress and outcomes, definitions of success and failure, public image and perception, and financial sustainability. The presented recommendations are the product of a shared commitment of face transplant teams to foster the development of face transplantation and are aimed at providing a gold standard of practice and policy.
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