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MUNICH, Germany — A German farmer who received the world’s first complete double arm transplant said Wednesday that incredulity gave way to joy when he woke from surgery to discover he had arms again. A former Boston University professor who lost all of his limbs after getting a life-threatening infection from group A streptococcus, has been approved for a bilateral arm transplant, NECN reported. Surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston will perform the nation's first double arm transplant on a Texas woman, the hospital announced Wednesday.
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Katy Hayes, 44, a quadruple amputee and ... Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he's received a double-arm transplant. Those new arms "already move a little," ... In 2014, WIll Lautzenheiser underwent a double arm transplant surgery.
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Now, on his final day of occupational therapy, he reflects on how he got this far. Welcome to Greenland, an economy reliant on ... The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus: Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant Will Lautzenheiser lost his arms and legs after a near-fatal infection in Montana. When Here & Now’s Robin Young spoke to Will and his identical twin Tom Lautzenheiser this summer, Will had found out ... Letter, Brandacher discussed the goals of the reconstructive transplant program and the challenges of vascularized composite allografts (VCA), the process of transferring tissues from donor to ...