DOD Program Gives New Hope to Double Arm Transplant Patient

By • on January 30, 2013

DOD Program Gives New Hope to Double Arm Transplant Patient

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2013 – As a wounded warrior who lost all four limbs in Iraq shared news of his successful double-arm transplant yesterday, officials at the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which funded the research making it possible, say the investment will continue to bear fruit in giving new hope to wounded warriors.

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A surgical team performs a double-arm transplant on Army Spc. Brendan Marrocco at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Dec. 18, 2012. Marrocco lost all four limbs to an explosively formed projectile in Iraq in 2009. The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine funded research to advance the techniques that made the surgery possible. Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins Hospital

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