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4th International Chauvet Workshop - Save the Date!

THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH – SATURDAY, MAY 2ND • ROCHESTER, MN

We are excited to announce that the planning for the Chauvet 2020 meeting is well underway. This meeting is of interest to all health care providers who care for individuals with upper extremity amputations, severe facial disfigurement, absolute uterine factor infertility and those with loss of laryngeal function and all VCA candidates and recipients. If you are in any discipline with an interest in the psychosocial aspects of these patients, this meeting will interest you.

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MEETING FACTS

  • Location: Mayo Clinic Downtown Campus, Rochester MN, USA
  • Date: April 30 (beginning at 12pm CDT) to May 2 (ending at 5pm).
  • Registration fee: $310 (Includes meeting registration, two breakfasts and lunches and two gala dinners and networking events at the historic homes of Drs. William and Charles Mayo,)
  • Lodging: There are several reasonably priced hotels in close proximity to the meeting location.

The Chauvet Concept

  • Importance of the psychological/psychiatric evaluation in VCA
  • Psychological impact of VCA
  • Creation of common protocols for evaluation, follow-up, and supportive treatment
  • The Chauvet workgroup addresses psychosocial domains and provides an interdisciplinary platform for the development of psychosocial guidelines and a multicenter research collaboration
  • All teams involved in VCA are invited to collaborate
Relevé des gestes de l'artiste sur le "panneau de la Mammarhino", Salle Brunel, Grotte Chauvet Pont d'Arc > Cliché D. Baffier/V. Féruglio

First International Chauvet Workshop

Paris (Novotel Eiffel), March 21-22, 2014

Since the beginning of the upper extremity transplantation era, the importance of the psychiatric/psychosocial evaluation of the potential candidates of upper extremity allotransplantation and the psychological impact of this type of transplantation on the recipients has been acknowledged. However, up to now common protocols for evaluation, follow-up and supportive treatment do not exist.

The first Chauvet meeting focused on the experience to date on the psychiatric/psychosocial evaluation, instruments used and psychosocial outcomes of hand grafted patients. Our goal was to initiate a multicenter study in order to gather data, develop a protocol for the evaluation, follow-up of and supportive treatment of patients, and advance in this new and special field of transplantation.

Summary of the First Workshop

Under the auspices for the IHCTAS (International Society on Hand and Composite Tissue Allotransplantation, a section of The Transplantation Society), a meeting was convened on March 21-22, 2014 in Paris to review the following areas that were deemed significant in the understanding of the psychosocial evaluation and outcomes of upper extremity transplant recipients: required domains of the evaluation, screening instruments, clinical monitoring pretransplant, clinical monitoring post-transplant, patient and team expectations, body image, psychiatric complications, functional goals and quality of life, ethics and media relations. Experts in the fields of psychiatry and psychology, transplantation, social work, ethics, and transplant administration met and reviewed center experiences and literature. The attendees highlighted the importance and the complexity of the psychiatric assessment in this field of transplantation. Moreover, the necessity to develop common instruments and evaluation protocols to predict psychosocial outcomes as well as to understand whether we are transplanting the right patients and how the transplantation is affecting the patients were pointed out. Psychiatric complications in upper extremity transplanted patients have been reported by the majority of teams. Pre-existing psychiatric difficulties, the initial trauma of amputation, or adjusting to the transplantation process itself (especially the medical follow-up and rehabilitation process) appeared to be important factors. Monitoring during the whole follow-up was recommended to detect psychiatric issues and to facilitate and ensure long-term adherence. The participants proposed an annual meeting format to build upon the findings of this inaugural meeting to be called the Chauvet Workgroup meeting.

The Chauvet 2014 Meeting Report: Psychiatric and Psychosocial Evaluation and Outcomes of Upper Extremity Grafted Patients has been published in Transplantation.
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Second International Chauvet Workshop

Paris (Mercure Tour Eiffel), September 17-19, 2016

The second workshop as well as the first International Chauvet Workshop was based on open and collegial discussion regarding psychosocial and ethical issues in VCA, including upper extremity, face and uterus transplantations.

One of the goals of the second workshop was to create a set of “recommendations” for psychosocial contraindication, evaluation and treatment in upper extremity allotransplantation on the basis of a survey sent to all active transplant centers.

Another goal was to give an update on the psychosocial issues in face transplantation focusing on critical topics such as suicide and face transplantation, body image, psychological follow-up and support of the face grafted patients and ethical issues. Finally, psychosocial and ethical issues in uterus transplantation were considered to better understand benefits and risks in this unique transplantation.