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man in his 60s, who lost one arm in an accident, received a brain-dead arm.

Arm transplantation is a very difficult operation, so it was legalized and donated only in 2018, and the first surgery was successful.



Dongchan Cho is a medical reporter.



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was the result of a struggle for about 17 o'clock in three operating rooms by 30 medical staff.



[Yoon-Rak Choi/Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Severance Hospital: Since there are more than 10 tendons to bend the fingers and more than 10 tendons to extend, I need to match them one by one to save the function of the hand.] The



implantation site is located under the patient's right elbow. Partial, brain-dead arm bones and tendons, as well as small nerves and blood vessels, had to be on the patient's arm.



[Hong Jong-won / Professor of Plastic Surgery, Severance Hospital: Two arteries and small veins go side by side, two of two, four, and a blood vessel on the side of the skin, connecting a total of five.]



Not only the arms of the brain dead, but also the lungs and heart. At the same time, surgery to allow donation of liver and liver to other patients was also performed at the same time.



The moment the other person's arm was connected,



[Jong-won Hong/Severance Hospital Plastic Surgery Professor: When I felt the feeling that someone else's blood was turned and revived by someone else's hand, he liked not only me but also many people in the



operating room

.]

The received patient's finger moved magically.



[Yoon-rak Choi/Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Severance Hospital: I think the patient gave me strength unconsciously.

But we hold a small thing so that it doesn't bend too much, but it moves just fine, so this



worked

.] The

medical staff was polite by restoring the arm with a prosthetic arm to the brain-dead donor who gave it to the arm.



The medical staff said that patients who successfully transplanted are undergoing rehabilitation treatment without any side effects, and expected their sensory and motor functions to improve further after 6 months.



(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Video editing: Kim Sun-tak)