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John Barker, a plastic surgeon in charge of the research for the Louisville project, said in an interview that his team had selected several patients from among 100 applicants to undergo a hand transplant later this year. Barker expressed confidence that his team's efforts would succeed, because advances in transplantation have been so dramatic in recent years. But he said the rejection of transplanted skin posed a particular risk to the success of the procedure and had been the limiting factor in earlier attempts and research. Barker, of the Louisville team, said he was surprised to learn about the operation in Lyons. He said his team 'never heard of this group' that performed the procedure. The idea of such a transplant was previously discussed at international scientific meetings, he said, but he does not recall that members of the French group participated

A man given another man's transplanted hand and forearm in France is recovering without any signs of graft rejection, his doctors said Monday. Clint Hallam, 48, is doing surprisingly well since his operation last week, said transplant team member Dr. Xavier Martin. Hallam -- a New Zealand man who lives in Perth, Australia -- walked Monday for the first time since Thursday's 13 1/2-hour operation and is eating, Martin said from the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyons, where the surgery was performed

The man, Clint Hallam, ''is doing surprising well,'' said Dr. Xavier R. Martin, after he and other members of the transplant team examined the graft. Mr. Hallam walked yesterday for the first time since the 13 1/2-hour operation and is eating, Dr. Martin said in a telephone interview from the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyons, where the operation was performed. A physiotherapist performed passive exercises on the grafted hand. Mr. Hallam is not allowed to move the donor hand or fingers by himself because such action could tear any of the hundreds of sutures used to connect the skin, muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels before the tissues have time to heal, Dr. Martin said

The Australian man who received a transplanted hand and forearm in France on Wednesday is recovering without any signs of graft rejection, his doctors said Monday. The man, Clint Hallam, 'is doing surprising well,' said Dr. Xavier Martin after he and other members of the transplant team examined the graft. Hallam walked Monday for the first time since the 131/2-hour operation and is eating, Martin said from the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyons, where the operation was performed

Surgeons in France announced yesterday they had attached the right hand and forearm of an anonymous donor to the arm of a 48-year-old Australian man whose own hand was amputated after a logging accident in 1989. Theirs was not the first such transplant attempt; at least one previous attempt, in Ecuador in 1964, ended in failure after two weeks when the donor hand was rejected by the body. Although no such transplant is believed to have ever been successful, the team in France said advances in drugs and microsurgery since the attempt in Ecuador gave the procedure a 50 percent chance of turning out well

Surgeons in France announced Thursday that they had attached the right hand and forearm of an anonymous donor to the arm of a 48-year-old Australian man whose hand was amputated after a logging accident in 1989. Theirs was not the first such transplant attempt; at least one previous attempt, in Ecuador in 1964, ended in failure after two weeks, when the donor hand was rejected by the body. Although no such transplant is believed to have been successful, the team in France said advances in drugs and microsurgery give the procedure a 50 percent chance of turning out well