The German farmer Karl Merk , which in July last year was the first man in the world that transplanted two arms.
Karl Merk The ordeal began in 2002 when he was 48 years. He was working as a laborer on a farm when a corn harvester amputated both arms almost shoulder height. A colleague found him bleeding dying, but managed to keep him alive until the arrival of medical equipment despite the fact that Karl, unable to endure the pain, repeatedly asking him to kill him.
A team of 40 doctors and nurses at the clinic at the Technical University of Munich, worked for more than 15 hours to make the new surgery, working synchronously in two operating rooms, to remove the two arms of the donor (late hours), and transplanting both ends to Karl Merk.
Just a year after undergoing the transplant, Merk and moves with the force of your muscles both arms, perceived sensations in the left hand and can move to "a little" progress that doctors described as a sensation press conference.
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