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BBC News: Woman has first face transplant

BBC News Woman has first face transplant

"In the controversial operation, tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient's lower face.

Doctors stress the woman will not look like her donor, but nor will she look like she did before the attack - instead she will have a "hybrid" face."

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The Seattle Times Doctor wants to try a face transplant
"In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that has never been tried anywhere in the world.

They will smile, raise their eyebrows, close their eyes, open their mouths. Dr. Maria Siemionow will study their cheekbones, lips and noses. She will ask what they hope to gain and what they fear.

Then she will ask, "Are you afraid that you will look like another person?"

Because whoever she chooses will endure the ultimate identity crisis.

Siemionow wants to attempt a face transplant."

International Herald Tribune Face transplant takes leave of science fiction
"The medical challenges to face transplants are formidable. As Siemionow envisions it, the series of operations will require rotating teams of specialists who may be deployed in more than one operating theater. The face to be transplanted will be removed, or "degloved," from a cadaver; it will most likely include the epidermis, along with the underlying fat, nerves and blood vessels, but no musculature.

Surgeons also will remove the patient's own damaged facial tissue, then reattach the clamped blood vessels and nerves to the transplanted face. The procedures will take 15 hours, perhaps longer."

Chicago Tribune Surgery's next step: face transplants
"Critics note that face transplants won't save or prolong lives but will require recipients to take powerful and perhaps dangerous immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives. Such drugs normally are given to organ transplant recipients whose only other option is death.

And if the surgery goes wrong--if the body rejects the face, for example--the consequences could be dire.

"The risks to the patient are staggering. This is a terrible idea that should not be tried," said Arthur Caplan, chairman of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania."

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