Sydney - The microsurgeon who led the team that transplanted a dead man's forearm on to an Australian amputee, Mr Clint Hallam (48), last week said yesterday three more patients were lined up for the operation.
Dr Earl Owen said the transplants could go ahead in France if Mr Hallam's surgery was still successful after two months. He decided to operate in France because of the country's mandatory organ donor laws and large pool of potential donors. Mr Hallam had the hand and lower part of his forearm grafted after surgery on his arteries, veins, nerves, tendons, muscles and skin in a Lyon hospital.