Newswise — Bethesda, MD – Capt. (Dr.) Eric Elster, a Navy transplant surgeon and chair of the Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences here, is among 18 experts named as members of a new committee to develop standards and policies for face and hand transplantation.
The Vascularized Composite Allograft Transplantation Committee was established by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation’s organ transplant system. Vascularized composite allograft (VCA) involves transplanting multiple structures such as bone, muscle, blood vessels, ligaments, nerves and skin. While face and hand transplants are currently the most widely known VCA procedures, other types of VCA transplantation may be developed in the future.
The VCA Transplantation Committee will determine which organ combinations will be covered in policy, develop national standards and processes for VCA donor consent and recovery, develop a system to prioritize VCA transplant candidates for available organs, develop a national set of clinical data to be collected on VCA transplants, and establish institutional standards for hospitals that perform VCA transplants.
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