Patient dies after Turkey quadruple limb transplant
Posted on Feb 28 , 2012 • 0 Comments
A Turkish patient who underwent what was touted as the world's first quadruple limb transplant died on Monday due to complications, the hospital announced.
Fifty-two doctors from Ankara's Hacettepe University Hospital performed the transplant on Friday, attaching two arms and two legs to Sevket Cavdar.
But doctors had first removed one leg from the patient after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb and then the other leg and … full story
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