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News for Healthier Living
"The Most Human Gesture" Brings the Gift of a Hand Transplant at Penn Medicine
In a Penn Medicine medical marvel six years in the making, a 28-year-old Swiss man has hands of his own for the first time since he lost his arms and legs to major infection at age 12. His bilateral hand transplant marked the first surgery of its kind at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania since 2019. The yearslong journey and transatlantic relationship with the Penn Medicine team leading up to the surgery endured amidst the hand transplant program's pause during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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