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> I'm really curious now if there have been other transplants like this before with similar results? Sometimes the results are not so good: https://time.com/4
by jussij 7y ago
> I'm really curious now if there have been other transplants like this before with similar results?
Sometimes the results are not so good:
https://time.com/4419959/double-hand-transplant-surgery/ https://time.com/4419959/double-hand-transplant-surgery/
This link describes a transplant patient who did not achieve a similar level of success.
However since his surgery dates back to the very early days of this medical procedure, I suspect over time the process has improved and current surgery patients end up with better outcomes.
- hinkley 7y agoFor a moment I thought this was the guy I was thinking of, and was shocked I never heard he couldn’t use them. But the guy I’m thinking of had a drunken encounter with fireworks, not sepsis. I recall being mad that the first recipient was just some random fool instead of a wounded hero. But a fool is probably easier to talk into a crazily experimental procedure...