Surgeons perform the world’s first successful bilateral hand transplant on a child.

Surgeons at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine 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 eight-year-old Zion Harvey who, several years earlier, had undergone amputation of his hands and feet and a kidney transplant following a serious infection. A 40-member multidisciplinary … Continue reading Surgeons perform the world’s first successful bilateral hand transplant on a child.