Marv
February 25th, 2012, 04:53 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2106380/Doctors-perform-worlds-quadruple-limb-transplant-attach-arms-legs-man.html
The world's first ever quadruple limb transplant was carried out by surgeons at a Turkish hospital today who attached two arms and two legs to a young man.
The operation took 20 hours to complete and required 50 doctors to help attach the limbs.
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But he did not provide any details about the patient.
The operation comes after a failed triple limb transplant two months ago at another hospital in the southern city of Antalya.
The doctors there were forced to remove a leg from a patient due to tissue incompatibility. The same patient also received two arms.
Although Dr Tuncer says his team also performed a separate face transplant on another patient yesterday - the second in Turkey this year.
The first in the country was performed on Turkish teenager Ugur Acar, who lost 70 per cent of his face when he was just two-years-old in a TV tube explosion, at Akdeniz University's School of Medicine in Antalya.
Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from the face of a 45-year-old donor to 19-year-old Mr Acar in January but doctors have said he will not be able to make facial expressions for another six months.
Two multiple-limb transplants in two months. The Turks sure are careless with their limbs.
The world's first ever quadruple limb transplant was carried out by surgeons at a Turkish hospital today who attached two arms and two legs to a young man.
The operation took 20 hours to complete and required 50 doctors to help attach the limbs.
[...]
But he did not provide any details about the patient.
The operation comes after a failed triple limb transplant two months ago at another hospital in the southern city of Antalya.
The doctors there were forced to remove a leg from a patient due to tissue incompatibility. The same patient also received two arms.
Although Dr Tuncer says his team also performed a separate face transplant on another patient yesterday - the second in Turkey this year.
The first in the country was performed on Turkish teenager Ugur Acar, who lost 70 per cent of his face when he was just two-years-old in a TV tube explosion, at Akdeniz University's School of Medicine in Antalya.
Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from the face of a 45-year-old donor to 19-year-old Mr Acar in January but doctors have said he will not be able to make facial expressions for another six months.
Two multiple-limb transplants in two months. The Turks sure are careless with their limbs.