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An eight-year-old boy from Maryland is the first ever child recipient of a successful double hand transplant.
Zion Harvey along with his mother and a team of doctors addressed media during a news conference Tuesday. Dr. Scott Levin directed a team of 40 people who worked in four separate teams to attach the donor's hands in the unprecedented procedure.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) DR. SCOTT LEVIN SAYING: "I think the difficulty is finding a family that has the courage to relinquish the arms of a child who just died, and give hope and life and quality of life to a child who's still living. That's the most profound thing for me."
Both of Zion's hands and feet were amputated when he was two due to an infectious disease. He's also had a successful kidney transplant - which actually helped doctors in their decision to move forward with the hand transplant.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) CO-DIRECTOR OF THE HAND TRANSPLANTATION PROGRAM OF THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA AND ASSOCIATE DIVISION CHIEF OF PLASTIC SURGERY AT PENN MEDICINE, DR. BENJAMIN CHANG, SAYING: "One of the things that's unique about Zion is that he already had kidney transplant. [OVER HARVEY'S MOTHER, PATTY RAY, HELPING HIM WITH HIS PROSTHETIC LEGS] He was on medication for rejection and so essentially we could piggyback off of that same medication."
During the news conference Zion thanked his doctors and supporters. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZION HARVEY SAYING: "I wanna say thank you guys for helping me down this bumpy road." For now, doctors say Zion will spend several weeks in physical rehab before returning home to Baltimore.
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transplant (n, v) |
/træn'splɑːnt/ |
a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body |
address (v) |
/əˈdres/ |
a formal speech |
unprecedented (adj) |
/ʌnˈpresɪˌdentɪd/ |
never having happened or existed in the past |
relinquish (v) |
/rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/ |
to give up something, such as a responsibility or claim |
amputate (v) |
/'æmpjuteit/ |
to cut off part of the body |
kidney(n) |
/ˈkɪdni/ |
small organ in the body that remove waste matter from the blood andproduce urine |
piggyback (adv) |
/ˈpɪɡiˌbæk/ |
on someone’s back |
rehab= rehabilitate (n,v) |
/rihə'bɪlɪteɪt/ |
to return someone to a healthy or usual condition or way of living, or to return something to goodcondition |
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