December 2, 2011

The development of medicine has recently come to what have now become feasible those operations, which previously did not even dreamed of. Sew severed limbs learned long ago, but British experts decided to take a different look at the issue.

The whole story began that day a young man, James Byrne, a bricklayer from the UK, sawing planks in his yard, cut himself inadvertently left thumb circular saw. An classic amputation But doctors managed to sew the finger back. The circumstances were such that the healing process began accompanied by complications, and sewed the finger began to threaten gangrene   due to violations blood supply .

James Byrne course of their work would be forced to say goodbye to the work, if not resourceful surgeon: the salvation of a full hand and finger transfer from foot to hand over eight hours of labor are just two teams of specialists. One of them is engaged in processing a brush, where the morning was still not got along finger, another team worked on the toe, which as a result has been successfully sewn on hand.

According to the young man, he had almost learned to wiggle the new finger, and about the gap in the leg and he did forget. In rehabilitation after the operation it took about two months, and a young man still does not continue to thank the doctors. Despite all the difficulties of life transferred, James is a joyful person. He even came up with the name of his new finger transplanted from foot to hand, and now calls him Toby.