The first US soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double arm transplant.
Brendan Marrocco had the operation on December 18th at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Mr Marrocco (26) was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009.
He also received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms. That novel approach is aimed at helping his body accept the new limbs with minimal medication to prevent rejection.
It is the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant done in the United States. The military is sponsoring operations like these to help wounded troops, about 300 have lost arms or hands in the wars.
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