World's first double arm transplant as man gets teenager's limbs
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Surgeons have performed the world’s first double arm transplant, the Daily Mail reports.The 16-hour operation was carried out on a farm worker who lost both arms in an accident.
The 54-year-old man was given the arms of a teenage boy who is believed to have died in a road crash.
Plastic surgeon Professor Edgar Biemer and his colleague Christof Hoehnke led a surgical team of 30 to perform the operation at a clinic in Munich.
The patient, who lost his arms in a threshing machine six years ago, is said to be recovering well from the surgery. He is expected to remain in hospital for five weeks of intensive therapy, but doctors warned it was too early to say whether the transplant would succeed.
Professor Biemer, 65, said: ‘The forces of rejection are stronger with limbs than with any other transplants because the skin is the largest immune barrier for the body. It instinctively rejects skin it doesn’t recognise.
‘New medicines have been developed to stop this rejection and the patient in this case will be taking this medicine all his life.’
He said it was difficult to forecast the psychological effect on the man of having the arms of a youth 35 years his junior.
Wow. Two new arms? I wonder if they have any tattoos...
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that is so wrong.
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