Double Transplant Success

      

    Double transplant recipient Richard Mangino

    A quadruple amputee in Massachusetts is praising Doctors in Boston for giving him arms and hands again.

    FOX News Radio’s Dave Anthony has the story:

    Richard Mangino had a dream.

    “To once again have arms. To have hands.”

    And Doctor Simon Talbot made it come true last week.

    Leading a team of 14 surgeons, giving him a double transplant, attached mid-forearm.

    “Just days post-surgery, Mr. Mangino began independently moving his fingers.”

    Which Mangino calls:

    “A miracle.”

    The 65 year-old lost his arms and legs to a terrible infection in 2002.

    “The one thing I have prayed for, was to be able to feel the sense of touch again.”

    They’ve also done face transplants at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Director Bo Pomahac says:

    “We stand at the forefront of unprecedented treatment options of the most severe traumatic injuries.”

    Dave Anthony, FOX News Radio.

     

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