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His original hands and his feet were amputated after he developed gangrene due to a sepsis infection.

“We wanted to really make sure that this was going to work for our patient and work for a lifetime, not just a year”, Dr. Benjamin Chang, co-director of the Hand Transplantation Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said in a video released by the...

PHILADELPHIA — An 8-year-old Baltimore boy who lost his limbs to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant, surgeons said Tuesday.