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Steven White

Man uses someone else's hand to save wife's life with 10 minutes of CPR

A Man who had a hand transplant saved his wife’s life by using his new appendage to give her CPR.

Mark Cahill, 61, kept Sylvia alive for 10 minutes until paramedics arrived after she suffered a heart attack.

The former landlord – the first in the country to have the procedure – said: “She’s fit and well today. That was using my transplanted hand.

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