[Macro replantation of upper extremity. Update and review of the long-term functional results]

Confronted with increasing problems of financing in health care, some question the relevance of certain interventions of high technicality. Today, the limiting factor for practitioners is not any longer situated at the technical and technological level (the survival of macro replantations is assured in 85-90%) but moves slowly and surely towards the economic level. It is true that medicine has a price and that if a technique is expensive, it should at least be justified at the human level and superior to other less expensive therapeutic options which are available. In this article, we will first focus on the long-term outcome of patients and also on the functional benefit which brings them replantation compared to patients who underwent a regularization of their stump and possibly a reconstruction enabling them to be correctly fitted with a prosthesis.