The British has a double-handed transplant in the “first in the world” for patients with scleroderma
A man whose hands were rendered unusable by a rare disease has been given a new lease of life after what is believed to be the world’s first double-handed transplant for the disease. Steven Gallagher, 48, was diagnosed with scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that causes scarring of the skin and internal organs, after developing an …