A woman is to undergo a rare double hand transplant after losing all of her limbs to sepsis from a urinary tract infection. Kim spent nine weeks in a coma and had her hands and legs amputated after she contracted the infection on holiday in 2017.
A woman is to undergo a rare double hand transplant after losing all of her limbs to sepsis from a urinary tract infection .
Doctors diagnosed her with sepsis, which is the body’s extreme response to infection, and immediately induced her into a coma. ‘I could see that it was obvious that my limbs needed to be amputated. When the doctor said it I just said “yes that’s fine, get it done!”The sepsis was caused by a common urinary tract infection
Kim said: ‘The doctors did an X-ray on me just two days before I was admitted, but as nothing was broke, they sent me away.
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