Pastry chef receives double hand transplant

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The 57-year-old Augusta, Georgia, resident underwent the first double hand transplant in the United States on Monday at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

On Friday he remained at the transplant intensive care unit.

He is “very stable, awake and alert, and he’s talking with us,” said Dr. W. P. Andrew Lee, who led the nine-hour surgery. “He is having good circulation in the transplanted hands.” Kepner shows no signs of transplant rejection, Lee s

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