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In the children’s specialized hospital, which is located in the state of Philadelphia (USA), a unique operation was performed in As a result of which eight hands were transplanted hands. Now he is the youngest patient to have suffered such operation.
Zion Harvey, living in a suburb of Baltimore, in a two-year-old limbs, including the soles of the feet, were amputated at age. Only like that way at that time it was possible to save the life of a child, affected by a serious infectious disease. When to Zion was four years old, the baby had a kidney transplant of his own mother.
The most difficult operation to transplant a child’s hands for ten hours a team of forty doctors carried out. Scott Levin, who led the operation, told NBC News that the doctors used the same technologies as during the operation, which in 2011 was made to an adult.
The bones were fastened to the boy with steel plates and screws, stitching of veins, arteries, muscles, tendons and nerves.
A press conference was held at the hospital, at which Zion showed that he can move his fingers slightly. The kid admitted that at first it was “a little strange” for him to feel his hands, but then I liked the feeling.
As Zion said, he had long dreamed of hugging the younger sister, and also – swing on the bar. Mother boy says: seeing him with tassels, she felt that her son “reborn.” There was a feeling of happiness, as at the sight of a newborn.
Now Zion will have a rehabilitation course that will continue. a few weeks, after which he will return home.
According to the surgeon, this operation is a new serious step in practice of pediatric transplantology, as it opened the way help many children deprived of limbs.
With prosthetic legs, Zion can even run and jump. Earlier he used his forearms to eat, write, play, say, computer games. After surgery, Zion actually will become a full-fledged person.
If we talk about the costs of the operation, then the children’s hospital stated that he would be satisfied with the payment of health insurance. The institution does not intend to demand any extra money. Thus, for the Harvey family, the operation became free.
