Face Transplantation

A self-explanatory procedure that was Hollywood fiction in 1997 (Face/Off, starring Nicholas Cage and John Travolta, John Woo, director), and a reality 10 years later, with operations planned or already under team belts in France, US, UK and China
Indications Patients disfigured by trauma, including gunshot wound, maulings—dogs, bears—burns, birth defects, neurofibromatosis, etc.

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The aim of face transplantation, classified under composite tissue transplantations, is to gain functionality while providing aesthetic improvement that has not been achieved by classic reconstruction surgeries.

Anaesthetic Management for Face Transplantations: The Experience of Akdeniz University

Rejection is likely to be a chronic issue with face transplantation, so there was significant doubt as to whether or not another transplant could even be performed, let alone succeed.

France surgeons perform first-ever double face transplant

A position paper in support of face transplantation in the blind.

Rhinoplasty in a Blind Patient

The patient was evaluated by a multidisciplinary team, and voluntarily enrolled in the face transplantation clinical trial at the NYU Langone Medical Center (clinicaltrials.gov number NCT02158793; Institutional Review Board protocol # I14-00550).

Absence of Rejection in a Facial Allograft Recipient with a Positive Flow Crossmatch 24 Months after Induction with Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin and Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody

However, no study to date has comprehensively assessed the recovery of emotional expression after full-face transplant or evaluated modifications in the somatosensory cortex after face transplantation [5].

Assessment of Emotional Expressions after Full-Face Transplantation

"Our analysis finds no physical, psychological, or ethical barrier that disqualifies children from undergoing face transplantation," comments Alexandre Marchac of Hpital Europen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, lead author of the new report.

Netherlands : 'No Ethical Barriers' to Face Transplant in Children, Experts Conclude

"The field of face transplantation is young, and we are all learning about our interventions and their outcomes," Pomahac said."We studied why transplanted faces seem to age fast as well as we could, but we don't really know many other things: When does this process end?

Transplanted Face May Age Prematurely

A team of surgeons under the leadership of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle carries out in Amiens (France) on 27 November 2005 the world's first partial face transplantation in a human.

The history of transplantation in the world and in Poland

Siemionow, Immunological Aspects of Face Transplantation, in The Know-How of Face Transplantation 25, 26 (Maria Z.

Informing donors about hand and face transplants: time to update the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

The country is 3rd in the world with regard to liver, bone marrow, kidney and face transplantation operations.

Hundreds of Successful Organ Transplants Performed at Kent Hospital in Turkey

Schultz et al., "CT angiography for surgical planning in face transplantation candidates," American Journal of Neuroradiology, vol.

The role of imaging in patient selection, preoperative planning, and postoperative monitoring in human upper extremity allotransplantation

Kaya's surgery became the seventh face transplantation performed in Turkey in the past two years.