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    Soldier who lost all limbs in Iraq gets double arm transplant

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    Post by Bama Diva Mon 28 Jan 2013, 9:00 pm

    Soldier who lost all limbs in Iraq gets double arm transplant

    Hopkins doctors to discuss the procedure today

    By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun
    7:43 p.m. EST, January 28, 2013

    A soldier who lost all of his limbs in the Iraq War received double arm transplants at Johns Hopkins Hospital last month in a rare procedure that should restore some normalcy to his life.

    Hopkins doctors are to speak in detail about the rare procedure performed on 26-year-old Brendan Marrocco in a press briefing Tuesday. The Army infantryman lost his arms and legs in a roadside bomb attack in 2009 becoming the first soldier of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to lose all four limbs in combat and survive.

    Marrocco is only one of seven patients in the United States to have undergone successful double arm transplants, Hopkins said. It is the first such procedure performed at Hopkins.

    The surgery on Dec. 18 involved connecting blood vessels, muscles, tendons, nerves and skin on both arms, which were given by a deceased donor. Hopkins did not release details about the donor.

    Doctors also used a new treatment to prevent Marrocco's body from rejecting the new limbs, which can sometimes happen in transplant procedures. The treatment involved infusing bone marrow cells from the donor's body. It has made it so that Marrocco doesn't have to take drugs to prevent rejection, which can sometimes damage organs and cause infections.

    Marrocco will participate in a study to see if bone marrow should be used routinely in transplant operations. Lead surgeon Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee said he hopes to make the procedure the new standard of care for limb and face transplants.

    Marrocco was a machine gunner stationed at Forward Operating Base Summerall in Bayji, Iraq, at the time of the explosion, according to a profile of the soldier in The New York Times. He was driving an armored vehicle in a convoy on a routine mission heading back to the base. He had become a driver just a few days before and was about six months into his time in Iraq.

    Four soldiers were in the vehicle at the time. Marrocco's best friend in the military, Spec. Michael J. Anaya, was killed, according to The Times. Another soldier was wounded and a fourth was unharmed.

    Marrocco spent months recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center before moving home to Staten Island to live in a house built with donations. He has been waiting for transplants since 2010.

    Marrocco used prosthetics before the transplants, something that didn't always work so smoothly. As he awaited his transplant surgeries, Marrocco told the Times that one of the first things he will do with his new arms is try and drive a stick shift.

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/blog/bs-hs-arm-transplant-announcement-20130128,0,6358314.story
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    Post by Bama Diva Mon 28 Jan 2013, 9:04 pm

    Soldier who lost all four limbs in Iraq bomb blast receives double arm transplant

    Brendan Marrocco, injured by a roadside bomb in 2009, was the first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war. The New York City native is recovering after undergoing a double arm transplant and a bone marrow transplant on Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his father said Monday.

    BY CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS , JOSEPH STEPANSKY AND STEPHEN REX BROWN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

    PUBLISHED: MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013, 2:09 PM
    UPDATED: MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013, 9:25 PM

    He was the first soldier to survive the loss of all four limbs in Iraq, and now he’s the recipient of a cutting-edge double-arm transplant.
    Staten Island’s own Brendan Marrocco, 26, endured the 13-hour operation on Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital to replace the arms he lost because of a roadside bomb on Easter Sunday 2009.

    “He never quits, he fights to survive,” said Giovanna Marrocco, 76, Brendan’s grandmother. “He’s very happy, he wanted this transplant. I’m happy, too.”

    Brendan will speak Tuesday in Baltimore about the mind-boggling procedure alongside the doctors who pulled it off. But the tough-as-nails soldier has already chronicled his recovery on Twitter.

    “Ohh yeah today has been one month since my surgery and they already move a little,” he wrote of his new limbs on Jan. 18.


    “It’s been frustrating because I have no function out of my hands yet (so) its been tough but I’ve been thru worse,” he wrote five days later.
    Indeed, the man who describes himself on Facebook as a “wounded warrior . . . very wounded” faces an ongoing battle.

    Brendan received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms — to try to prevent his body from rejecting the foreign flesh.
    The marrow is meant to minimize the need for medication to trick Brendan’s body into accepting the arms, which he described as “new prints” on Twitter.
    The road to recovery will have its obstacles. “My God I’m freezing cold but my arms and back feel like they are on fire and not my normal phantom pain,” he wrote Sunday.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/nyc-vet-receives-double-arm-transplant-article-1.1249645?localLinksEnabled=false
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