Mangino after the operation, which doctors described the results as a resounding success (Reuters)
Announced Brigham Hospital in Boston transplant surgery in the new Saeidin rare for a man (65 years) had the sleeves and legs, in the surgery lasted 12 hours.
And succeeded battalion of more than 40 doctors, nurses and paramedics in planting forearms to Richard Mangino last week in the surgery lasted 12 hours.
Mangino said he copes with the new forearms gradually, and no longer need "to do a miracle," a day to do things as simple as preparing a cup of coffee or wear clothes.
He said in a news conference where he was sitting in a wheelchair, putting both arms and his hands on a set of pillows, he prayed to be able to touch the faces of his grandchildren and to wipe his hand on their hair and to teach them how to throw the ball.
And the loss of Mangino, who lives in the neighborhood of River, Massachusetts, forearms and legs after suffering blood poisoning in 2002.
The hospital said the surgery is complex included the cultivation of the skin and tendons, muscles, ligaments and bones and blood vessels Balsaeidin and hands. The doctors said that Mangino move independently of his fingers a few days after surgery, and described the results as a "resounding success".
It will take several months of recovery, and doctors are expected to regain the sense of touch in as little as six to nine months with continued therapy to help him learn to pick things up and catch her.
And condemns the cultivation of the second surgery is carried out by Brigham Hospital Foundation, a subsidiary of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University.
Transplant was condemned for the first time in France in 1998 while the first surgery took place in the United States a year later.
Source: Reuters
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