Amazing story.
Wow! Just think what this could mean for vets who have lost limbs! Praise the LORD!
Ok, I’ll admit that I’m curious... what sort of donor would be appropriate for a limb transplant? I’d assume that anyone who died of cancer or similar systemic illness would be ruled out. Also probably someone not too old, nor suffering any sort of vascular or cardiovascular illness that might damage veins or arteries. I don’t know. Perhaps anyone person who died in motorcycle accident or a gunshot wound to the head?
That’s pretty fantastic. A problem might arise however, if the ‘donor’ were a fellon. Suddenly, you have a criminal’s fingerprints.
“But your Honour, I only got these hands six months ago.”
Maybe there is hope for the South Carolina woman who lost both her arms (up to the shoulder) in a pit bull attack a month or so back.
She is relatively young (early 50s); a wife, mother, and grandmother.
News reports tell of her tremendous depression and the need to sedate her.
He’s a grandfather at age 49?
“’I’m not putting any serious weight on, I’m trying to put on muscles but at the same time growing nerves,’ he said.”
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Amazing story.
If I recall, it used to be transplants of certain organs could be made to take without rejection, but limbs and anything with musculature would not be useful, because they could not connect nerves and get them to grow together functionally.
This article suggests they are beyond that and I was hoping they would explain how but it never delved into it.
Very cool to see what progress is being made in medicine though