Published: Saturday February 25, 2012 MYT 6:14:00 PM
Updated: Saturday February 25, 2012 MYT 6:18:53 PM
Turkish surgeons perform world’s first quadruple limb transplant
ANKARA: For the first time in the world a patient was given two legs and two arms in a transplant operation at a university hospital in Turkey.
"The quadruple limb transplant is over and the patient is being given a blood and plasma transfusion to help him get through the next 24 hours," Dr. Murat Tuncer, rector of the Ankara-based Hacettepe University, told the Anadolu Agency.
The recipient was a young man and the 20-hour operation was performed by a team of more than 50 doctors.
The limbs were harvested from a cadaver whose face is also set to be transplanted onto a separate patient.
The quadruple limb transplant at the Ankara hospital follows other such major transplants in Turkey with a successful full-face transplant at the Mediterranean University Hospital last month.
The world's first triple limb transplant trial with two arms and a leg at the Mediterranean University Hospital went wrong, however, as the doctors had had to remove the leg due to tissue incompatibility. - Bernama
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