And even if rejection wasn’t an issue, it’s not easy to connect all those blood vessels and nerves, especially between two different bodies. My dad had a surgery to transplant a piece of his quad from one leg to the other, and it took something like 10 hours of surgery to make all those tiny connections. Can’t imagine what the surgery time on an entire leg would be!!
Dande-l10n t1_iwcrrj0 wrote
Reply to We have seen successful transplants of various organs, hands, even faces -- so why not transplants of legs or feet to lower-limb amputees? Why are these not a thing? by Pandeism
And even if rejection wasn’t an issue, it’s not easy to connect all those blood vessels and nerves, especially between two different bodies. My dad had a surgery to transplant a piece of his quad from one leg to the other, and it took something like 10 hours of surgery to make all those tiny connections. Can’t imagine what the surgery time on an entire leg would be!!