French woman receives world's first face transplant: surgeon

Breitbart.com ^ | Nov.30, 2005

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The world's first partial face transplant has been performed on a 38-year-old French woman, whose lips and nose were ripped off in a dog attack, the surgeon who carried out the operation told AFP.

Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first hand transplant in 1998, confirmed news reports that the transplant had taken place, without giving further details.

According to Thursday's issue of the French news magazine Le Point, a team of surgeons led by Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle carried out the operation on Sunday and Monday in the northern French town of Amiens.

In the high-risk operation, a triangle formed by the nose and mouth was grafted on to the patient, from the northern French town of Valenciennes, who was admitted to hospital in May, the weekly said.

The facial tissues, muscles, arteries and veins needed for the transplant were taken on Sunday from a donor in the northern city of Lille, who was in a brain-dead condition, according to Le Point.

Dubernard, a surgeon at the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon and a French deputy, performed the world's first hand transplant in September 1998, followed by the first double hand and forearm transplant in January 2000.

Devauchelle is a facial surgery specialist from the CHU university hospital in Amiens.

[ZULU]

Bingo!!!

[going hot]

hope the brain dead donor doesn't suddenly come to.

[ZULU]

Bingo!!!

[Roscoe Karns]

Rove should look into that face transplanting technique. In the meantime he'll have
to make do with look-alikes:

You must be wondering why I summoned you, Klink.

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Yes. Why did you call me here?

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I won't beat around the bush, Klink. We need you to infiltrate the DNC.

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What!? But how?!

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Let me worry abot that, Klink. Right now I want you to lose the monocle, shave
the sides of your head and put on a suit. Do that and report back here on the
double!

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Excellent, Klink! Even better than we had anticipated! From here on out you will
be addressed as James Carville. By the time we're through with you you'll be
walking and talking just like Ol' Corporal Cue-ball himself! Now, let me show
you my plan....

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"Thirty days in the cooler, Hogan!"

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What?

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Nothing. I was just having a flashback.

[finnman69]

If you try to stiff the bill they give you this face.

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NICE work !

[Para-Ord.45]

WIZARD OF OZ

The frogs need some sort of courage transplant.


PS: deoderant too.

[green iguana]

I don't see the big deal.

Do a Google Images on 'Jacqueline Saburido'. I think she'd consider it a big deal.

[Dallas59]

Jacqueline Saburido



Hit by a drunk driver...

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Okay

[CommandoFrank]

Congrat's... this is the post of the year!

[Decepticon]

ROTFLMAO!

[SteveMcKing]

I meant ethically, it's the right thing to do.

(One might guess the reactionary view is that it's somehow wrong or dangerous... I shouldn't speak for them, however.)

[Hildy]

That can't be...Dr. Troy and his new arch nemesis partner just performed one last week on NIP/TUCK.

[Hildy]

OH my GOD...that poor, poor woman.