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Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant"

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 18 2018, @01:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the facing-reality dept.

takyon writes:

A man who had previously received a face transplant has received another face transplant, following complications with an antibiotic:

The first person in the world to receive two facial transplants says he is feeling well, three months after his latest groundbreaking operation.

Jérôme Hamon had his first transplanted face removed last year after signs of rejection following a treatment with an incompatible antibiotic during a cold. The 43 year old remained in a hospital in Paris without a face for two months while a compatible donor was sought. He said: "The first [face] I accepted immediately. This time it's the same."

Mr Hamon suffers from neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic condition that caused severe disfiguring tumours on his face. His first transplant, in 2010, was a success, but he caught a common cold in 2015 and was given antibiotics. The drug was incompatible with the immunosuppressive treatment he was having to prevent a rejection of the transplanted material. The first signs of rejection came in 2016 and last November, the face, suffering from necrosis, had to be removed.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:26PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:26PM (#668650)

    Man, the lengths some people will go to to avoid Facebook photo tagging.

    (Joking aside, that condition sounds terrible, hope the second transplant holds.)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:40PM (#668721)

    The Joker in the Gotham TV series is named Jerome Valesquez(sp?), he also had his face cut off, before reclaiming it from the guy who stole it and stapling it back on. I wonder if that is just a quirk of fate or if someone on the story staff was a nerd and upon hearing about this guy got the naming/face cutting done in order to make an in-joke about this guy.

    Having said that: Was the face shown in the photograph stolen off an asian guy and grafted on a caucasian guy?

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:00AM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:00AM (#668765) Journal

      IIUC it's got to be a close genetic match or you've got horrible rejection problems. So I doubt it. But since immuno groups don't pay THAT much attention of nominal racial groups, possibly.

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