Specialists worked for 10 hours to complete the extraordinarily entangled surgery on Baltimore local Zion Harvey.
He already had both his hands and feet cut away and had a kidney transplant after a noteworthy disease.
The grinning, gifted adolescent had figured out how to eat, compose and even play computer games without hands.
Presently he says he is anticipating having the capacity to toss a football with his own particular hands.
It took a group of 40 specialists, attendants and other staff from plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology and radiology, to draw off the spearheading surgery.
Specialists first carefully connected bone, then veins. When the blood was flowing, specialists associated tendons, muscles and nerves.
"Zion's kidney transplant after his contamination made him a contender for transplant on the grounds that he was at that point taking hostile to dismissal drug," said Benjamin Chang, co-executive of Cleave's Hand Transplantation Program.
Harvey is getting day by day against dismissal medicines. Specialists said he ought to have the capacity to return home to Baltimore in a couple of weeks.
"This surgery was the consequence of years of preparing, trailed by months of arranging and readiness by an astounding group," said L Scott Levin.
"The accomplishment of Penn's first respective hand transplant on a grown-up, performed in 2011, gave us an establishment to adjust the many-sided strategies and composed arrangements needed to perform this kind of complex strategy on a kid."
The primary reciprocal hand and lower arm transplant surgery was done in January 2000 in Lyon, France. (AFP)