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The Lyon teams have just achieved a new surgical feat.
Practitioners from the Edouard Herriot hospital and the park clinic completed the first double transplant of all the arms and shoulders on Wednesday evening, according to our information.
This very heavy, complex operation required 14 hours of intervention.
The patient is currently in intensive care.
If arm transplants have already been performed, they did not previously include the shoulders.
Two teams were responsible for removing the limbs of the donor and two others for grafting the recipient.
He is a 48-year-old Icelandic man.
This father, formerly an electrician, had both arms amputated at the age of 26, following an electrocution on a high voltage line.
On the waiting list for almost 5 years
He decided to settle in Lyon in 2013, two years after accepting his transplant file.
He had previously contacted the Lyon teams, after learning about the work of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, the first to have performed a hand transplant in 1998, then a double hand transplant, two years later.
He had been on the waiting list for five years.
It will now be necessary to wait in order to control the problems of rejection and the rehabilitation of transplanted limbs.
Contacted this Thursday morning by
20 Minutes,
the direction of the HCL has not yet communicated on this intervention.
The world's first transplant of both arms took place in 2008 in Munich, Germany.
The recipient had been grafted below the shoulder.
In France, only one patient was transplanted from both arms, but not all.
She saw her own limbs re-implanted, above the elbows, in August 2018 at the Grenoble University Hospital.
Or a few weeks after his accident.
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