HOUSTON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- A woman in the U.S. state of Texas has been officially added to a hospital list in Boston to become the first in the country to receive double arm transplants above the elbow, media reports said on Wednesday.
Katy Hayes, 43, completed a pre-operative evaluation and has been approved by the review board at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) for the bilateral arm transplant, The Houston Chronicle reported, citing hospital officials.
Hayes, a mother with three children from Kingwood, Texas, became a quadruple amputee in 2010 after a life-threatening Group A Streptococcal (GAS) infection invaded her following the birth of her daughter.
BWH is working in collaboration with the New England Organ Bank (NEOB), which will actively search for an appropriate donor for Hayes, the hospital officials said.
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