POLAND: Man 32 born without a hand undergoes successful hand transplant

As event unfolds each day, with various scientific breakthroughs, one begins to understand better what the Holy Bible meant when it said in the last days knowledge shall increase.

It was in Poland where a team of surgeons successfully performed a hand transplant from a dead person into a man who was born into this world without a hand, thus making it the world’s foremost successful hand implant from a dead donor into an adult.

“It is the first graft in the world of an upper limb onto an adult with this congenital defect,” said Adam Domanasiewicz, who headed the team of surgeons at Wroclaw Medical University Hospital.

“We are talking about a man who lived 32 years without this member.”

Though Domanasiewicz revealed that conjoined twins have had similar procedure in the past in Indonesia and Canada. Also hands have also been grafted onto patients whose own limbs were amputated.

The said transplant was executed on December 15 during a surgery which took the team 13 hours to perform.

Though as at press time, only the fingers of the patient can be moved, however, the medical team expressed their optimism of the patient gaining better movement as time progresses.

“This is an important breakthrough in neurophysiology and the practice of transplants because up to now, it was thought that — in the case of this type of congenital defect — such grafts could not be done,” said Domanasiewicz.

This medical breakthrough could bring about new possibilities to thousands of people in the world, who were born without complete members.