World's first bilateral hand transplant on child

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

Surgeons recently to complete the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully transplanted donor hands and forearms onto 8-year-old Zion Harvey who, several years earlier, had undergone amputation of his hands and feet and a kidney transplant following a serious infection.

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