21-year-old Shreya Siddanagowder (Shreya Siddanagowder) is from Pune, India. She was amputated in a traffic accident in September 2016 in a traffic accident. In August 2017, a 20-year-old man in Kerala, India, died and donated hands of the same type as Cyria. In the end, Ceriya performed surgery at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Kochi City.
It is reported that less than 200 people worldwide have undergone hand transplant operations. This operation is even rarer because it is the first transgender transplant of its kind in Asia. The operation lasted 13 hours and was performed by 20 surgeons and 16 anesthesiologists. The surgical team first connected the bones, then the arteries, veins, and tendons and muscles, and finally sutured the skin, and transplanted the man's hands to Cyria's arm. In the 18 months after
, Ceriya received in-depth physical therapy at the institute, and the nerves in the hands slowly recovered.
Recently, Ceriya's hands have gradually become thinner and smaller. Perhaps because of illness, she has lost 12 kg and her hand fat has also decreased. Even more surprising is that the originally dark hand skin gradually became the skin tone of her body, which made the transplanted male hands look more natural and more suitable for her body.
Dr. Subramania Iyer, head of plastic surgery at the Amrita Institute, said: "This is the first hand transplant between a man and a woman. We can only guess that female hormones are responsible for this. Changes, but it’s difficult to assess the exact cause.” Another plastic surgeon on the
surgery team, Mohit Sharma (Mohit Sharma) put forward a theoretical guess: “In a year or so, between the donor hand and the host body The lymphatic channel between them is completely opened and body fluids begin to flow. The melanin-producing cells are likely to gradually replace the donor’s cells, causing this change.” Z1z
Cyria’s fingers now have one third of the nerves and can write normally. , Is still working hard to restore more functions. Although the recovery process is still difficult, it is undoubtedly an exciting progress in the transplant world.
