Morning, we will get to meet the soldier and the surgeon behind it all. A News Conference is scheduled for 11 this morning. This is video from before the transplant. Brendan marrocco is the first sold year to survive after losing all four limbs in the iraq war. He was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009. He underwent the complex transplant last month. It involves connecting bones, blood vessels and muscles and nerves and skin on both arms. The surgery involved an innovative treatment that used the dead donors bone marrow cells to help prevent his body from rejecting the new limbs. The 13 hour operation was led by dr. Andrew lee, the Plastic Surgery chief here at hopkins. Marrocco is one of seven u. S. Soldiers to received a successful double arm transplant. He will spend the next 3 to 4 months at hopkins and then he will return to a Military Hospital to undergo further physical therapy. Again, that News Conference to meet the soldier and the surgeon is scheduled for 11 this morning at t
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