Re Dr. Siemionow's statement on not knowing whether antirejection drugs will have the same adverse effects in healthier patients, do those effects have any early signs (like precancerous changes) that could be detected in the time since the hand transplants have been done?

And I'm glad to hear Ms. Culp has good sensory function in her face since the transplant!

what is the doctor background and Leonard, can you please check if you are pronouncing her name right!!?? Sounds offly wrong. Thanks.

Leonard:

I believe, STRONGLY, that the phrase is a "drug regimen", not a drug regime.

Do patients taking immunosuppresant drugs have a greater suspecibility to disease and infection because their immune systems are suppressed?

Is the reason for not using donor skin for grafts because of the drugs you have to take for your body to accept it? I have a free flap (muscle from my back and skin from my thigh) on my foot and the sores on the bottom never heal due to the soft thigh skin. I always wondered why the doctors didn't use "bottom of the foot skin" from a donor/ cadaver.

Does the recipient of the face transplant have normal sensation in her face?