World's first leg transplant given go ahead

[Still Waters]

The world's first leg transplant is to take place this summer. The breakthrough operation could offer hope to millions of amputees and injured war veterans.

Health chiefs in Spain are expected to give surgeon Pedro Cavadas the go-ahead for the pioneering operation next month. The news comes just a day after it emerged surgeons in Barcelona had performed the world's first full-face transplant.

Cavadas, who has already carried out a partial face transplant and three arm transplants, plans to perform a double leg transplant using limbs from a dead donor.

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