World's first transplant of two full arms!
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Edgar Biemer performs first arm transplantPosted by: openborderProfessor Edgar Biemer who performed the operation. The patient approached ...
Surgeons have performed the world's first double arm transplant. The 16-hour operation was carried out last Friday 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.
Doctors warned it was too early to say whether the transplant would succeed.
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- News Source: Adelaide Now | about 1 year agoHe has been given the arms of a teenage boy who is believed to have died in a car crash. The 54-year-old unnamed patient lost both of his arms in a farming accident six years ago. The operation, which was conducted at the Klinikum rechts der Isar...
- News Source: Xtra News | about 1 year agoGerman doctors have succeeded in transplanting two complete arms onto a 54-year old man in what their hospital said was the world's first operation of this kind. During 15 hours of surgery, a team of 40 medics attached the arms to a farmer who lost...
- News Source: Leader Post Online | about 1 year agoThe head of the transplant team, Christoph Hoehnke, told reporters he was deeply moved as the man's wife went to his bedside after the operation and instinctively reached for his hands. "They look just like they used to," she said, according to...
- News Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer | about 1 year agoA German farmer who lost both his arms in an accident has been successfully fitted with two new limbs in what is believed to be the first complete double arm transplant, his surgeons said Friday. Reiner Gradinger, medical director at the Munich...
- News Source: AFP | about 1 year agoA German medical team said Friday it had performed what it called the world's first transplant of two full arms, on a farmer who had lost both his limbs in an accident. The male patient, 54, was "doing well under the circumstances" after the 15-hour...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | about 1 year agoSix years ago, the 54 year old farmer lost both his arms at upper arm level during an accident...After two attempts with various artificial limbs had proven unsuccessful, his desire for arms consisting of live tissue became ever bigger. He approached...
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- Blog Source: arbroath.blogspot.comSurgeons have performed the world’s first double arm transplant. The 16-hour operation was carried... warned it was too early to say whether the transplant would succeed. Professor Biemer, 65, said
- Blog Source: www.vitabeat.com- The first double arm transplant has been performed in a 16-hour surgery by a team of 30 surgeons in a Munich hospital. A 54-year old man who lost both arms in a farming accident six years ago
- Blog Source: www.mailonsunday.co.ukSurgeons have performed the world’s first double arm transplant. The 16-hour operation was carried out last Friday on a farm worker who lost both arms in an accident.
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- Blog Source: digg.comSurgeons have performed the world’s first double arm transplant. The 16-hour operation was carried out last Friday 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 ...
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