Turkish surgeons give patient world's first quadruple limb transplant

ANKARA (A.A) - For the first time in the world a patient was given double legs and double arms in a transplant operation at a university hospital in Turkey. "The quadruple limb transplant is over and the patient is given a blood and plasma transfusion to help him overcome the next 24 hours," Dr. Murat Tuncer, rector of the Ankara-based Hacettepe University, told the Anadolu Agency. The limbs were harvested from a cadaver whose face was also set to be transplanted to a separate patient. The quadruple limb transplant at the Ankara hospital follows other such major transplants in Turkey with a successful full face transplant at the Mediterranean University Hospital last month.  The world's first triple limb transplant trial with two arms and a leg at the Mediterranean University Hospital went wrong however as the doctors had had to remove the leg due to tissue incompatibility.