Three months after the operation the patient could pick up objects. Foto: Clas Frohling/Söder hospital press.
HEALTH
Patient receives two new hands at Stockholm hospital
Publicerad 18 nov 2025 · kl 13:47 · 1:51 min
A patient who had both hands amputated after a severe infection has received new ones from a dead donor after a long and complex transplant operation at Stockholm's Söder hospital.
Three months later, the patient can pick up a pen and eat with cutlery.
"It took two and a half years to find the right donor," hand surgeon Tobias Laurell tells Radio Sweden.
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