Doctors Complete First Bilateral Hand Transplant on 8-year-old

July 29, 2015

(UPI) – Doctors in Philadelphia completed the first pediatric double hand transplant on an 8-year-old boy who’d had his hands and feet amputated, in addition to a kidney transplant, after a serious infection when he was 2. A 40-member medical team spent 10 hours on the intricate surgery, which will keep Zion Harvey recovering at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for several weeks before his rehabilitation continues when he and his mother return to their home in Baltimore.