After Double Arm Transplant-53 years old Mexican Man got New Life
In Gabriel
Granados, age - 53 years old Mexican man both
hands had detached from just below the
elbow due to badly burned after getting electrocuted while he was in a
construction site giving instruction to
a group of construction workers for building a fence on January 2011. He was
giving directions to the master masons to fix a fence that was actually located
in an area where cable wires hanging. At that time he had a piece of rod in his
hands which attracts electric power and got electric shock which burns his arms
completely and damaged arteries, nerves, vessels and even bones too. For a
period of time he had to live without arms.
Last May he got transplantation for both
his arms and becomes the first patient to have double arm transplant procedure
in Latin America. Nearly a group of 20 Medical practitioners and Medical
officers including five Plastic surgeons, five nurses and three anesthetists
worked out continuously for 17 hours to complete his transplant great success.
This major surgery occurred in the National
Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zurbaran.
Gabriel received his new limbs of
movements from a 36 years old shooting victim and he markedly thanked to the donor's
family for the 'new lease of life' and also thanks for the extensive
rehabilitation such as physiotherapy at Mexican city's National Institute of
Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Hospital for recovered the majority of
movements in his arms. After a month of operation, Gabriel has begun to feel
his new hands. Before doing surgery on Gabriel, the surgery doctors did trials
of transplant procedure on corpses.