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Patient Receives Two Arms After Marathon Surgery

A 54-year-old farm worker has become the first man to receive the world's first successful double arm transplant.

A 54-year-old farm worker has become the first man to receive the world’s first successful double arm transplant.

The unnamed man lost his arms in a threshing machine accident six years ago and was given new arms from a dead donor in Bavaria.

The operation was performed by Professor Edgar Biemer and colleagues at the Isar Clinic in Munich.

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