Tag: University Hospital of Wroclaw

Poland carries out first limb transplant to an adult patient born without hand

WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) — Polish doctors have succeeded in transplanting a hand from a dead man to a 32-year-old man who was born without a hand, proving that transplants in cases of congenital deficiencies are also possible. Hand transplants have been improving since 1999, but surgeries have normally been performed in situations in which the patient had lost the limb in an accident. Doctors have always feared that the brain of a person born without […]