A team of Spanish surgeons have carried out the world's first double leg transplant.
About Transplantation
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
It would not reveal the names of the donors or the patient for reasons of privacy.
But Spain's health ministry announced in November that it planned to carry out a double leg transplant on "a patient who had suffered a trauma above the knee on both legs and for whom prostheses would be no use".
ORGAN DONATION
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In October 2008 he carried out the first double arm transplant undertaken in Spain and the second in the world, while in August 2009 he performed the first face transplant in Spain.
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