Turkish hospital performs limb, face transplants

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? The state-run news agency says a hospital in southern Turkey is performing the world's first triple limb transplant.

The Anadolu news agency says a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, are attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man who lost his limbs at age 11 when he was electrocuted.

The team on Saturday is also transplanting the face of the same donor onto another patient ? a 19-year-old man whose face was burned in a house fire when he was a baby. It will be Turkey's first face transplant.

The world's first double arm transplant was in Germany in 2008, while the first double leg transplant took place in Spain in July 2011.

Associated Press

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