{"id":273,"date":"2014-04-16T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2014-04-16T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:49:52","slug":"ear-replantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/2014\/04\/16\/ear-replantation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear Replantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the images section of this weeks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMicm1310815\" title=\"NEJM article\">New England Journal<\/a> there are 4 remarkable pictures. In the first is the site of the ear amputation, bitten off by a pit bull dog, in a 19 year old woman, while the second picture shows the retrieved ear after debriding. The arterial blood supply was restored using a branch of\u00a0the posterior auricular artery. As no suitable veins were available leeches were applied to provide venous drainage for 17 days and the third picture shows a leech in action. The ear remained viable and the 4th picture shows a healthy looking ear at 24 days. At 4 months the ear was stable and a normal appearance was maintained. Truly remarkable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the images section of this weeks New England Journal there are 4 remarkable pictures. In the first is the site of the ear amputation, bitten off by a pit bull dog, in a 19 year old woman, while the second picture shows the retrieved ear after debriding. The arterial blood supply was restored using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[209,251],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-ear-replantation","tag-microsurgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}