EAR TO THIS

Doctors in the US have reattached a 19 year old girl’s ear, which was entirely torn off by a dog, with the help of blood sucking leeches. A pit bull attack left the girl’s left ear entirely torn off. Surgeons at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence attached a tiny artery to the girl’s blood supply with three microscopic stitches .The artery brought fresh blood to the ear, but the team could not find a vein to drain blood back to the body. Therefore they turned to the blood sucking leeches, which have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the medicine, Life Science reported.”The body is very efficient at making new arteries and veins, so the leeches are temporary”, Stephen Sullivan, a plastic Surgeon at the hospital said.

Source: Times of India Dated 21/4/2013