Medicine child first transplanted two donor hands

Eight-year-old from the USA, two hands are transplanted for the first time
For the first time in the history of medicine, two hands have been transplanted to a child. As the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia currently reports, the operation of eight-year-old Zion Harvey from Baltimore took ten hours and was successful. The boy had lost both hands and feet a few years earlier due to a serious infection, and had already had a kidney transplanted.

40 doctors operate for ten hours
Doctors in the US have apparently achieved a medical sensation. This is clear from a communication from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Accordingly, it was surgeons of the (CHOP) together with colleagues of the "Penn Medicine" managed to perform the world's first two-sided hand transplantation in a child. A 40-strong interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, radiologists and other healthcare professionals was involved in the operation, which according to the CHOP was successful.

For the first time a child was transplanted hands. Image: Marco2811 - fotolia

"This surgery is the result of years of training, followed by months of planning and preparation by a remarkable team," said Scott Levin, chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Penn Medicine and head of the hand transplant program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "The success of Penn's first bilateral hand transplant in an adult in 2011 gave us a foundation to adapt the complicated techniques and coordinated plans needed to perform this complex procedure in a child," Levin continued. The 8-year-old Zion Harvey had lost both hands and feet after a serious infection a few years ago and had a kidney transplanted. (No)