News tagged with face transplant
'It works' -- face transplants now mainstream
(AP) -- They savor pizza and burgers, no longer frighten children, and many of them can walk the streets without people knowing they have someone else's cheeks, nose, lips and skin. People who have had face ...
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Aug 11, 2011 |
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US proposes regulating face, hand transplants
The government wants to start regulating face and hand transplants just as kidneys, hearts and other organs are now, with waiting lists, a nationwide system to match and distribute body parts and donor testing ...
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Jan 05, 2012 |
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Complication in first triple limb transplant
(AP) -- A Turkish doctor whose 25-member team performed the world's first triple limb transplant - two arms and a leg - says the leg has been removed due to tissue incompatibility. ...
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Jan 22, 2012 |
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Turkey: doctors perform quadruple limb transplant
(AP) -- The head physician at a Turkish hospital says his team has performed the world's first quadruple limb transplant, attaching two arms and two legs to a young man.
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Feb 25, 2012 |
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Some face transplant patients may regain sensory, motor function
(HealthDay)—Within a year after having face transplant surgery, some patients regain sensory and motor functions such as the ability to speak, chew food and smile, experts have found.
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Oct 26, 2012 |
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US woman disfigured in lye attack reveals new face
(AP)—A U.S. woman revealed her new face after a transplant Wednesday, six years after her ex-husband disfigured her by dousing her with industrial-strength lye, and said she went through "what some may ...
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May 01, 2013 |
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Complication in Turkey's quadruple limb transplant
Turkish surgeons had to remove one leg from a patient who underwent a quadruple limb transplant after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb, the hospital said on Sunday. ...
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Feb 26, 2012 |
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Patient dies after Turkey quadruple limb transplant
A Turkish patient who underwent what was touted as the world's first quadruple limb transplant died on Monday due to complications, the hospital announced.
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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