German surgeons transplant patients both hands

A team of German surgeons have performed the country's first double-hand transplant donor for 54-year-old patient, reports Telegraph. In an operation that lasted more than 16 hours, was attended by five groups of physicians employ 30 employees. The patient lost his German doctors hands many years ago to work in an accident on the farm. Donor hand is a 19-year-old man who died in a car accident. Operation, which lasted about five years preparing for, was held on Friday in Munich Isar Clinic. Hours Participants were divided into five groups: two groups were simultaneous transplantation of the upper extremities, a seizure of vessels in the donor transplant to ensure the blood supply to the transplanted limbs pursue, should. As transplantation led 65-year-old surgeon, Edgar Biemer, the patient physiotherapy on a long course of rehabilitation. In particular, experts predict recovered around your fingers hands it can be felt in about two years. Doctors also do not exclude the possibility of rejection. Poses additional problems, a large age difference between the patient and the donor: not yet known, the effects on the mental state of the patient, the presence of hand 19-year-old boy. "To survive, you must have very stable mind, but made our patients from the right test" - said Dr. Beamer told reporters. The world's first fully successful hand transplant operation was French surgeon Jean-Michel Dyubernarom in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted in 1999. In the following years, the group has about 30 Dyubernara from such operations performed including several double sink transplants.