Pretty amazing stuff. My question is whether it will feel like someone else doing it when he gets around to masturbation.
Germans perform world's first double-arm transplant
Doctors at the Technical University of Munich have conducted the world's first double-arm transplant on a 54-year-old farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident, officials said.
The operation was conducted at the university's "Klinikum rechts der Isar" last week, the clinic said in a statement Friday, following several years of preparatory work.
The man's condition "is very good under the circumstances," the statement said.
"Now it is a matter of avoiding future wound healing disorders, infections, strong side-effects caused by the drugs and in particular any rejective reaction."
A team of 40 people participated in the transplant surgery, conducted July 25 and 26. The donor matched the host in sex, age, skin color, size and blood group, the statement said.
The transplant subject had lost both his arms at the upper arm level six years ago, and two attempts with artificial limbs had been unsuccessful.
Wow, this would be fabulous if it works. Alter so many lives.
While I was down in Oregon this past week, there was a story at the beach about a young boy who had his arm pretty much cut off in a surfboard/dory collision in the surf. The docs reattached it and hopefully he successfully heals and regains use.
Its just astonishing how far medicine has advanced, isn't it. I read an article which described work being done to tease the genetic properties out of animals like slamanders and so-on that can regrow tails and limbs in order to apply to humans. Now that would e a wonderous thing. I don't understand why that ability got cut off in later evolution. Do you have any knowledge about that?