Double Arm Transplant: Monday February 4, 12-1 p.m.

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Midday_020413_Hr_1_MarroccoArmTransplant.mp3

Iraq war veteran Brendan Marrocco lost both arms and both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2009. In December a team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital performed a rare bilateral arm transplant, giving him two new arms. Members of the surgical team join us: Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, director of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Dr. James Higgins, chief of the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital, and Dr. Gerald Brandacher, scientific director of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program.