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First U.S. Face Transplant Patient Can Taste, Breathe
New York :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
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Connie Culp, the gunshot victim who underwent the first face transplant in the U.S., is now able to smell, taste food and breathe through her nose, her surgeons reported in the November/December issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery . Almost...
Tags: Connie Culp, U.S. CLEVELAND, face transplanting, New York, Surgery, Face transplant, Organ transplant, Culp, Transplantation medicine, Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Year of birth missing, Health Medical Pharma
First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant looks successful
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 10 days ago
Credibility The recipient has experienced no long-term rejection and has regained some functional abilities, including her senses of smell and taste. Three previous facial transplants were completed prior to this procedure, performed at Cleveland Clinic in December...
Tags: total face, jaw transplants, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Surgery, Face transplant, Corneal transplantation, Transplantable organs and tissues, Transplantation medicine, Surgical procedures, Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Health Medical Pharma
Face transplant patient doing 'very well'
Madrid :: Spain | 3 months ago
Credibility The man received a new face from a 35-year-old man who died in a traffic accident in Wednesday's operation at the Hospital La Fe in the eastern city of Valencia which lasted 15 and a half hours. It was the eighth such operation to have been carried out...
Tags: Spain, face transplant
Surgeons complete Spain's first ever face transplant
Madrid :: Spain | 3 months ago
Credibility The complex surgery was performed at the Hospital La Fe in Valencia Surgeons at the Hospital La Fe in Valencia have successfully concluded Spain’s first face transplant operation, after 15 hours of complex surgery involving a team of more than 30 people...
Tags: Spain Press Review, Spain Papers Review, El Mundo, face transplant, South Africa, IOL
Jeremy Laurance: Learning to live with a new look
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility It is three-and-a-half years since the world's first face transplant was carried out on Isabelle Dinoire, 41, who received the lips and chin of a dead woman, as well as part of her nose and cheeks, after being mauled by her dog in northern France. Half...
Tags: face transplant
Wife of Boston face transplant donor speaks out
Whitman :: MA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Mass. — The wife of a Massachusetts man whose tissue was donated for the nation's second face transplant said her husband told her before heart transplant surgery that he wanted to donate his organs if he didn't survive the operation. Susan Whitman told...
Tags: Joseph Helfgot, The Boston Globe, face transplant, Massachusetts, heart transplant
Chimp attack victim transferred to renowned transplant clinic
Stamford :: CT :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Dr. John Persing, head of the cranial and facial reconstruction program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, could not comment on the type of treatment Nash might undergo, but said it will depend on the area of the injury and the extent of tissue loss. "We try...
Tags: Connecticut, Charla Nash, Leslie Mostel-Paul, chimps attack, Stamford Hospital, Sandra Herold, Cleveland Clinic, face transplant, Travis, critically injured
Face transplant patient can smell now
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, head of plastic surgery research at the Cleveland Clinic and leader of the transplant...
Face transplant patient out of hospital
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The first patient to undergo a face transplant procedure in the United States has been released from a Cleveland hospital, a surgeon says. Dr. Maria Siemionow, who headed up the face transplant surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, said the unidentified patient...
Tags: face transplant, Cleveland Clinic, transplant patient, leaves hospital, patient leaves
Doctor: Face transplant patient 'very happy'
Paris :: TN :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Dr. Maria Siemionow, head of plastic surgery at the famed Cleveland Clinic, led a surgical team that recently performed the first face transplant in the United States. Siemionow and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta talked with CNN's Larry...
Tags: surgeon, medical, face transplant, Dr. Maria Siemionow
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