A 54 - year - old German farmer who lost his arms in an accident six years ago has just get two new arms in the first doubled - arm transplant operation ever performed ( pictured is one of his new arms ) . A squad of German doctors spent 15 hours grafting two arms from a recently - deceased teen conferrer onto the man ’s shoulder . They connected all his tissues , include the extremely - hard rip vessels . What remains now is for the man ’s nerve to produce until they form connection with the nerves in his raw arm . That will give up him to take complete mastery of his transplanted limb . doc estimate that nerves maturate about 1 mm every day . The BBC reports : The affected role can not move his raw arms . . . it could be two year before the patient can manipulate his new hands . Hans - Guenther Machens , director of script and formative surgery at the Klinikum rechts der Isar clinic , said : “ The regeneration process will take a longsighted time . ” UK transplant expert Nadey Hakim , head of the transplant unit at London ’s Hammersmith Hospital , said the higher up an amputation on the arms , the leisurely it was to plug into newfangled limbs , as there were fewer nervus and only one ivory to connect . The man may never have proper adept in his arms and hands , even if he is able to move them . Though it is easier to connect new limbs the high the amputation is , the opposite is true for establishing sensation . The higher the amputation , the less likely it is that a transplant recipient will experience anything in his or her hand . Several successful helping hand transplants have been performed over the past 7 year , and their recipient can keep in line their hands and experience hot and cold star . Farmer Has Double Arm Transplant[via BBC News ]
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