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MGH to begin replacing hands

New approach to transplants; will be Hub’s 2d program

By Liz Kowalczyk

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 20, 2011

Massachusetts General Hospital is launching Boston’s second hand transplant program, in hopes of eventually transplanting disfigured patients without subjecting them to a lifetime of dangerous anti-rejection drugs - an advance that could turn a rare operation into a routine one. If doctors are successful, hand transplants could become more attractive to thousands of amputees, many of them veterans of recent conflicts.

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