In France, for the first time in the world, repeated face transplantation

in science •  7 years ago 

Surgeons managed to re-transplant a person's tissues after the patient began rejecting donor material seven years after the first operation.

French surgeons performed the world's first transplantation. A patient who received a new face seven years ago began to reject donor tissues, and the doctors decided to re-transplant. Before the new operation, the man spent about one and a half months in an artificial coma. The completion of the procedure was reported by The Local.

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For the first time, partial transplantation of the facial tissues was possible in 2005, the patient was a Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinuar, who suffered from canine bites. After the operation, the woman lived more than 10 years and died of cancer in 2016.

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The first patient who underwent a face transplant was a forty-year-old Frenchman. On November 30, 2017, doctors removed his uninfected face tissues, then the patient was injected into an artificial coma. The operation was held in mid-January 2018, it lasted almost all day. Officials from the French health system said:

"This transplant for the first time shows that re-transplantation is possible in case of chronic tissue rejection." To make a final conclusion about the success of the operation, doctors will be able to only in a few weeks.

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Yeah, France is progress in medical therapy technology. This challenge is very impress our world.