Doctors remove one leg from quadruple limb transplant patient in Turkey

ANKARA (A.A) - February 26, 2012 - Turkish surgeons were forced to remove one leg from a patient who underwent the world's first quadruple limb transplant at a Turkish university hospital. "We were forced to remove the left leg as the patient's heart and vascular system could not sustain the limb after we spoke to the familiy of the patient," Dr. Murat Tuncer, rector of the Ankara-based Hacettepe University, told reporters Sunday. Tuncer said overall condition of the patient was stable, adding that the other leg and the two arms were in good shape.  Tuncer said a separate patient who received a full face transplant on Saturday -- the second of such transplants in Turkey -- was in good condition.