An Italian man has regained the use
of a paralysed hand thanks to nerves in his foot transplanted in
an Italian hospital in a world first.
The surgery was carried out Tuesday in the CTO hospital in Turin
"for the first time in the world", according to a statement from
the City of Health local health agency.
The patient is a 55-year-old social worker who, after a car
accident, had suffered the amputation of half of his left leg
and a complete injury to the brachial plexus of his left arm.
The procedure carried out by the doctors, described by the CTO
as "pioneering", involved transferring a portion of the sciatic
nerve to the upper body.
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