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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
May 6, 2009
PITTSBURGH — Teams of surgeons performed the nation’s first double hand transplant on a man whose hands and feet were ravaged by a bacterial infection a decade ago and who hoped to once again be able to hold his daughter.
Jeff Kepner, 57, of Augusta, Ga., underwent surgery....