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International consensus recommendations on face transplantation: A 2-step Delphi study

Lookup NU author(s): Daniel Saleh, Professor Derek Manas

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Abstract

© 2023 The AuthorsFace 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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Author(s): Longo B, Alberti FB, Pomahac B, Pribaz JJ, Meningaud J-P, Lengele B, Ozkan O, Ozkan O, Barret JP, Lassus P, Blondeel P, Roche N, Gurunian R, Infante-Cossio P, Lindford A, Brandacher G, Giovanoli P, Plock J, Gorantla VS, Herrington ER, Saleh D, Natalwala I, Cardillo M, Jowsey-Gregoire S, La Padula S, Manas D, Benedict J, Nuccitelli G, Bosc R, Morello R, Farias-Yapur A, Giacalone M, Hall S, D'Orsi G, Cervelli V

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: American Journal of Transplantation

Year: 2024

Volume: 24

Issue: 1

Pages: 104-114

Print publication date: 04/01/2024

Online publication date: 02/09/2023

Acceptance date: 18/08/2023

Date deposited: 09/11/2023

ISSN (print): 1600-6135

ISSN (electronic): 1600-6143

Publisher: Elsevier B.V.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2023.08.023

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.08.023

Data Access Statement: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as all collected and analyzed data are present in the manuscript.

PubMed id: 37666457


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MR/S017356/1
UKRI

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