Ankara, Turkey - A Turkish hospital says world's first quadruple limb transplant has failed.
Hacettepe
University says doctors had to remove two arms and two legs that were
transplanted on 27-year-old Sevket Cavdar because of tissue
incompatibility.
Doctors
attached the limbs on Cavdar on Friday night. He had lost his arms and
legs in 1998 when he was accidentally electrocuted.
The
operation followed a failed triple limb transplant two months ago at
another hospital in the southern city of Antalya. The doctors there were
forced to remove a leg from a patient also due to tissue
incompatibility. The same patient also received two arms.
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