The team that carried out the world’s first hand transplant has gone one
better. Eighteen surgeons at the Edouard-Herriot hospital in Lyons last week
took 17 hours to attach two forearms to a 33-year-old Frenchman who had lost his
own hands in a factory explosion in 1996. He will have to take a cocktail of
immunosupressant drugs to prevent his new hands being rejected.
Clint Hallam, the recipient of the first transplant in 1998, is now able to
write, wield cutlery and hold a glass with his new hand.
