article_snippet.sent: The X-rays show a man's  before and after the surgery .
article_snippet.sent: Other specialists from the hospital's plastic surgery and liver transplant departments were also brought in to advise on the procedure, details of which have only just been released.
article_snippet.sent: The patient, a 45-year-old man, did not want to be identified.
article_snippet.sent: a man's  had been examined in several other hospitals, including the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School, which had considered a man's  to be inoperable.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors at the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona, who carried out the procedure, say the procedure was the world's most complex to date.
article_snippet.sent: But the Vall d'Hebron hospital ruled surgery was the Vall d'Hebron hospital ruled surgery only treatment option - and this week reveled the good news that a man's  is now living a normal life.
article_snippet.sent: Vall d'Hebron hospital released a statement saying: 'This is the first time that a transplant of this complexity has been performed in the world.' '
article_snippet.sent: The patient evolution after the Vall d'Hebron hospital ruled surgery was successful, similar to any transplant patient at Vall d'Hebron hospital. '
article_snippet.sent: Now a man's  is already at home and only comes to Vall d'Hebron hospital for routine check-ups.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona claims Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona has carried out a world-first .
  