Surgeons reattach hand lost at work
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A MAN in central China’s Hunan Province whose severed hand was grafted to his ankle to keep it alive while his arm recovered has undergone surgery to have it reunited with his wrist.
The patient, surnamed Zhou, lost his left hand in an accident at work, but because his arm was also badly damaged surgeons were unable to sew it back on immediately.
Instead they grafted it on to Zhou’s ankle to maintain a blood supply, and there it remained for about a month.
Once his arm had recovered, Zhou underwent a 10-hour operation to have the hand reattached, said Tang Juyu, head of the microsurgery department at Xiangya Hospital in Changsha, capital of Hunan.
“If we hadn’t attached the hand to the ankle, the tissue would have died and it would have been impossible to save it,” Tang said.
The tendons in Zhou’s arm also needed time to heal before the hand could be reattached, he said.
The patient has already regained some movement in his fingers but will need to follow a long program of rehabilitation before he has full mobility, Tang said.
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