On January 15,2008 Stg. Brendan Marrocco joined the United States army. He completed his training in Fort Benning, Georgia. In late October 2008, Brendan was deployed to Iraq for twelve months. The mission of Brendan Company was to find terrorists, stop acts of terrorism, search for and seize weapons caches and maintain security in their area of operation.
In the year 2009 early April morning, while returning to base after a night mission, Brendan’s vehicle was directly hit by an Explosive fired projectile resulting in one fatality and two injuries. Stg. Brendan Marrocco sustained many injuries they were: Amputation of both arms and legs, several left carotid artery, broken nose, left eye socket and facial bones, shrapnel to the left eye and face, severe lacerations to the face, burns to the neck and face and pierced left eardrum. After the attack he was kept from bleeding to death by his unit’s medic and friends long enough to be transported to the US army trauma hospital in Tikrit, Iraq.
On December 2012 Stg. Brendan Marrocco underwent a 13-hour surgery for a double arm transplant at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. With a team of 16 surgeons, who performed the procedure. Stg. Brendan Marrocco surgery took and was one in the United States. The Rehabilitation process is long and grueling but the doctors believe with physical therapy Marrocco will be able to feel his arm with in two years.
How did the arm didn’t get rejected? Well the doctor took bone marrow cells form the arm donor’s spine and gave them to Brendan. The cells trick his immune system into thinking that the new arm that he was receiving was part of his body. While preparing the arm they would have to connect the bone together using plates and screws. Then the muscles and tendons were connected and then the blood vessels, arteries and veins. Connecting all the arties and vessel together will help