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# Limb transplant
Turkish man receives world's first quadruple limb transplant
A team has attached two arms and two legs to a young man in a 20-hour operation at Hacettepe University Hospital in Ankara
THE HEAD PHYSICIAN at a Turkish hospital says his team has performed the world’s first quadruple limb transplant, attaching two arms and two legs to a young man.
Murat Tuncer on Saturday appealed for blood donations to overcome possible complications following the 20-hour operation, performed by more than 50 doctors at Hacettepe University Hospital in Ankara. He did not provide any details about the patient.
The operation comes after a failed triple limb transplant two months ago at another hospital in the southern city of Antalya. The doctors there were forced to remove a leg from a patient due to tissue incompatibility. The same patient also received two arms.
Tuncer says his team also performed a separate face transplant Friday, the second such operation in Turkey this year.
