Summary Soldier lost four limbs in Iraq war will drive and swim after a double-arm transplant surgery.
BALTIMORE: Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco spoke at a news conference Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was joined by the surgeons who performed the double-arm transplant.
The procedure was only the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant ever conducted in the United States.
Marrocco says he s happy and amazed to have new arms. He has prosthetic legs but says that without arms, he felt "kind of lost for a while."
The infantryman was injured in 2009. He also received bone marrow from the same dead donor to minimize the medicine needed to prevent rejection.
