(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 26 - 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. (ANSA).
Man regains use of paralysed hand thanks to foot nerves
Part of sciatic nerve moved by Turin hospital in world first