Distal digit replantation: challenges and strategies to improve outcomes
Review published in Semin Plast Surg (2025)
Abstract
Digit replantation has undergone significant advancements since the 1960s. Despite progress, distal digit replantation remains one of the most challenging microsurgical procedures due to technical and clinical complexities. This review examines current challenges, strategic solutions in distal digit replantation, grounded in clinical experience and literature review. Key obstacles include managing minute vessel structures, venous congestion, and the critical condition of no available vessels for revascularization. Advances in surgical techniques, including preosteosynthesis vein grafting, intravascular stent, solitary central pulp artery bifurcation division, subdermal pocketing method, and postoperative management, have enhanced outcomes.
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Summary
Review of challenges and strategies for distal digit replantation outcome improvement.
Why This Matters for Hirudotherapy
This review examines challenges and surgical strategies in distal digit replantation, including managing minute vessel structures, venous congestion, and situations with no available vessels for revascularization, and discusses advances such as preosteosynthesis vein grafting, intravascular stents, and subdermal pocketing methods. For ASH, no defensible connection to leeches, hirudotherapy, or the leech secretome exists in this abstract; the article does not mention or imply any leech-based intervention. Relevance is absent: the abstract addresses surgical techniques for venous congestion and microvascular repair without any reference to bloodletting or leech therapy.
Citation
Distal digit replantation: challenges and strategies to improve outcomes.
Hsu et al. · Seminars in plastic surgery, 2025
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