U.S. Soldier 'Re-Grows Leg' After Pioneering Medical Research

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U.S. Soldier 'Re-Grows Leg' After Pioneering Injection Of Pig Bladder Hormone -- The Daily Mail

A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.

Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.

With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated.

But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected with a growth promoting substance extracted from pig bladders.

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Update: Radical therapy sees injured US soldier regrow muscle -- The Australian

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