Sunday, April 16, 2006

China Performs Second Face Transplant



A man in China received the world’s second face transplant after he was brutally attacked by a black bear two years prior. A single donor provided this man with a new cheek, upper lip, nose, and eyebrow. The surgery began on Thursday and wasn’t completed until Friday morning, but the operation was successful. The patient is doing well so far, and the surgical wounds should heal within a week. He will, however, be left with some surgical scars running from his lower left ear above his nose to his right ear and around his chin. This partial face transplant happened only a few months after the first face transplant was performed in Amiens, France where a woman who had been attacked by a dog received new lips, chin and nose.

source~The San Antonio Express-News, “China hospital says it’s given victim of wild bruin attack a face transplant,” April 15, 2006, page 18A.
Here is another link to the same article from ABC news if you wish to read more about it:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1842553&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
Also here is a link to an article about the first face transplant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4484728.stm

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