Spanish surgeon performs first transplant of two legs
July 12th, 2011 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANSValencia (Spain), July 12 (IANS/EFE) Spanish surgeon Pedro Cavadas carried out here Monday the world’s first-ever double leg transplant.
The operation performed by Cavadas and his medical team at Valencia’s La Fe Hospital began Sunday night.
This was a “highly complex” operation that had never been done before, according to hospital authorities, who did not provide information about the patient receiving the transplant.
They said that Cavadas considered it necessary to wait for at least 48 hours before giving out information and asked both patient and donor to keep the matter confidential.
Cavadas previously performed Aug 18, 2009, the world’s first face implant to include both jaw and tongue, on a 43-year-old man who was released from hospital close to a month after his operation.
The surgeon also did the first double transplant of forearms and hands on a Colombian woman, Alba Lucia, who was operated in November 2006 and was able to go home 18 months later.
In November 2006 he successfully reimplanted a 20-year-old man’s right leg that was amputated in an accident at work.
–IANS/EFE
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