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EXCERPT: . . . After her accident in 2016, 18-year-old Shreya Siddanagowder's arms were amputated below the elbow. In 2017, she underwent a 13-hour transplant operation performed by a team of 20 surgeons and 16 anesthesiologists, The Indian Express reported on March 7.
Her transplanted hands came from a 21-year-old man who died after a bicycle crash. Over the next year and a half, physical therapy improved Siddanagowder's motor control of her arms and hands, which gradually became leaner than they were at the time of the transplant. But there was another unexpected change: The skin on her new limbs, which had been darker because the donor had a darker complexion, became lighter in color, so that it more closely matched Siddanagowder's skin tone...
[...] "I am the first female in the world to have male hands," Siddanagowder said in a video shared on Facebook in June 2019 ... However, her hands "have feminine features now," Siddanagowder added.
One explanation for her hands taking on a more "feminine" shape could be the muscles adapting to their new host [...] Siddanagowder's doctors are monitoring the changes in her hands' skin color and shape, and they expect to publish the details of her transplant and recovery in a case report ... more evidence will be required to understand what is driving these changes in her transplanted hands... (MORE - details)
EXCERPT: . . . After her accident in 2016, 18-year-old Shreya Siddanagowder's arms were amputated below the elbow. In 2017, she underwent a 13-hour transplant operation performed by a team of 20 surgeons and 16 anesthesiologists, The Indian Express reported on March 7.
Her transplanted hands came from a 21-year-old man who died after a bicycle crash. Over the next year and a half, physical therapy improved Siddanagowder's motor control of her arms and hands, which gradually became leaner than they were at the time of the transplant. But there was another unexpected change: The skin on her new limbs, which had been darker because the donor had a darker complexion, became lighter in color, so that it more closely matched Siddanagowder's skin tone...
[...] "I am the first female in the world to have male hands," Siddanagowder said in a video shared on Facebook in June 2019 ... However, her hands "have feminine features now," Siddanagowder added.
One explanation for her hands taking on a more "feminine" shape could be the muscles adapting to their new host [...] Siddanagowder's doctors are monitoring the changes in her hands' skin color and shape, and they expect to publish the details of her transplant and recovery in a case report ... more evidence will be required to understand what is driving these changes in her transplanted hands... (MORE - details)