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First documented hand transplant done by surgeons from Ecuador in 1964.
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The electric prosthetic hand was developed by Helmut Lucas, and was controlled by cords attached to the arm.
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In September 1998 a patient (Clint Hallam, 48) had the first human hand transplant, it was initially successful, but then his tissue rejected the transplanted hand and they had to amputate the patient’s hand.
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In around 1999 long term hand graft solutions were developed. Studies of the patients who had been operated on showed that there was initial rejection of the hand transplants, but it was managed when they altered the patient’s postoperative immunosuppressive regimen, which helped the patient’s immune system adapt quickly to the foreign hand transplant.
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A patient called Chris Taylor received a bionic hand which had electrically powered fingers and was the first man in Britain to have this invention transplanted on him.
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February 2015, Austrian patient uses nerves to control his transplanted hand.
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August 2016, Sergeant Peck was the first military person to have this type of hand transplant, and he briefly rejected the tissue, but then that was resolved with anti-rejection medication.
