The surgery is being considered the first of its kind.

Surgeons have succeeded to fit two new appendages to a German farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident. According to doctors, it is the first complete double arm transplant.

Medical director of the Munich University Clinic, Reiner Gradinger told that it took 15 hours to surgeons to graft two limbs onto the body of a 54-year-old German farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident six years ago.

“The reattachment is quite successful and the patient is recovering well,” Gradinger added.

Keith Rigg who is vice president of the British Transplantation Society told in an interview to The Associated Press in London that he believes this surgery of double arm transplant was the first of its kind in the world.

The surgeons didn’t release the name of that farmer and similarly the identity of the arm donor, who died shortly before the surgery, has not been revealed.

Another surgeon on the transplant team, Christoph Hoehnke told that it was a complicated procedure but it went off without any difficulty. More than 40 doctors, nurses and assistant worked together in that process of attaching arms.

“The whole thing happened the way we wanted it to,” Hoehnke added.

“To establish blood flow between the body and new arms’ muscles was the biggest challenge.

Lifespan of muscles is quite short. The patient is still being closely monitored by the doctors to make sure that the new limbs are not rejected by the body and immune system” Biemer states.

At that moment, the patient is not able to move his new arms and the Doctors are expecting that the network of nerves will expand one millimeter per day.

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