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American Boy Is World's Youngest Person to Get Double Hand Transplant

A U.S. hospital announced that an 8-year-old American boy has become the world's youngest patient to receive a double hand transplant. Surgeons operated for 10 hours at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to carry out an incredibly complicated operation on Zion Harvey this month, although the procedure was not announced until this week. A 40-person medical team used steel plates and screws to methodically attach the old and new bones, as well as veins.  Once the blood was...


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