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Cleveland Clinic Completes Nation's First 'Almost' Total Face Transplant
FoxNews.com ^
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Posted on 12/16/2008 10:08:23 AM PST by BornToBeAmerican
MILWAUKEE — The nation's first near-total face transplant has been done on a woman at the Cleveland Clinic, the hospital announced Tuesday.
Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow replaced nearly all of the woman's face — 80 percent — with that of a dead female donor in an operation a couple weeks ago.
The patient's name and age were not released. The hospital plans a news conference Wednesday to give details.
The world's first partial face transplant occurred in France three years ago on a woman who had been mauled by her dog. Two others have been announced since then — a Chinese farmer attacked by a bear and a European man disfigured by a genetic condition.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facetransplant
This is of course controversial, and I have no real firm views, but I sure think that it would improve the quality of life beyond measure. Even if immunity drugs would need to be taken for the rest of their lives. I have heard that the person rarely looks like the donor because of the changes in skeletal structure.
To: BornToBeAmerican
I would pity the poor soul that got Helen Thomas’s face. Yikes!
To: BornToBeAmerican
It'll get to the point where you can get one at Wal-Mart while you're getting your tires rotated.
Sell your BoTox shares and get in on this exciting ground floor opportunity!
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:12:48 AM PST
by
realdifferent1
(We've tried the soap box, jury box and ballot box. Only one box left and it's time to use it.)
To: BornToBeAmerican
This would be a better option for Blago than taking up residence next to Jimmy Hoffa.
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:13:02 AM PST
by
umgud
(I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
To: BornToBeAmerican
It will give new meaning to the phrase “just another pretty face”
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:14:48 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(Aspire to inspire before you expire)
To: BornToBeAmerican
Next!
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:14:56 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(I'll give Obama the same amount of respect the left gave Bush)
To: BornToBeAmerican
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:15:38 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: BornToBeAmerican
So Nancy Pelosi only LOOKS like she had one?
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:16:57 AM PST
by
AZ .44 MAG
(A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
To: Londo Molari
Helen Thomas looks like she has enough there to donate for 4-5 faces.
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:18:20 AM PST
by
AirForceMom
(God Bless the USA)
To: Londo Molari
***I would pity the poor soul that got Helen Thomas’s face. Yikes!***
As the Chinese doctor said, “Yoou have Zakrey disease! Yoou face look zakrey like yoou a$$$$!”
To: BornToBeAmerican
How does a story about the Cleveland Clinic have a byline coming out of Milwaukee?
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posted on
12/16/2008 10:55:26 AM PST
by
Cyman
To: Cyman; mikrofon; martin_fierro
How does a story about the Cleveland Clinic have a byline coming out of Milwaukee? Cleveland had a place transplant.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
As the Chinese doctor said, “Yoou have Zakrey disease! Yoou face look zakrey like yoou a$$$$!”I heard a Chinese doctor call Cleveland Clinic "Crink Crink."
To: Charles Henrickson; mikrofon
Cleveland Clinic Completes Nation's First 'Almost' Total Face Transplant What a half-faced exercise that is.
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