Jeff Kepner is the first ever recipient of double
hand transplant surgery in the
United States
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. The surgery was performed at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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on Monday May 4, 2009. Kepner lost both hands and feet in 1999 from a
strep infection.
The organ donor whose hands Kepner received was Jeffrey Keen, a 23-year-old from Clearfield, PA.
See also
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Clint Hallam
Hand transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. The donor hand usually comes from a brain-dead donor and is transplanted to a recipient who has lost one or both hands/arms. Most hand transplants to da ...
References
Hand transplant recipients
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American amputees
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