{"id":50252,"date":"2012-01-22T03:47:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50252"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:00:06","slug":"turkish-hospital-performs-worlds-first-triple-limb-transplant-separate-face-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/22\/turkish-hospital-performs-worlds-first-triple-limb-transplant-separate-face-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish hospital performs world\u2019s first triple limb transplant, separate face transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Associated Press, Published: January 21<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50254\" title=\"97768746_20100713212551_320_240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/97768746_20100713212551_320_240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/97768746_20100713212551_320_240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/97768746_20100713212551_320_240-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world\u2019s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another patient \u2014 a 19-year-old man. It was Turkey\u2019s first face transplant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we have put our signature on a world success,\u201d Dr. Israfil Kurtcephe, the university hospital\u2019s rector, told reporters after the two operations. \u201cFor the first time a hospital has transplanted two arms and a leg on one patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via Turkish hospital performs world\u2019s first triple limb transplant, separate face transplant &#8211; The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>More : <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Associated Press, Published: January 21 ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world\u2019s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845,922],"tags":[4183],"class_list":["post-50252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scitech","category-world","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}