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.