For the first time, a man received a …

An Icelandic became this Wednesday the first patient to receive a transplant of both shoulders and both arms. The intervention was performed in a hospital in Lyon, France.

“As far as we know, this is a world first, as the previous arm transplants did not include shoulders“, Declared a spokesperson for the Edouard Herriot hospital, in which the” bilateral arm and shoulder transplant “was performed. the intervention lasted 15 hours and “required the mobilization of many public and private medical and health teams in the territory,” HCL said in a statement.

According to several French media, the patient from Iceland suffered atransfer of both arms at the age of 26, after an electrocution with a power line.

In 1998, also in Lyon, the team of Professor Jean Michel Dubernard performed a first hand transplant. Two years later, in January 2000, he fabricated another of both hands and the lower part of the forearms.

The first two-arm transplant in the world took place in July 2008 in Germany, a farmer having an amputation following an accident at work.