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.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:01PM
He can take over for Psycho Joe Scarborough. Perfect match to Low I.Q. Crazy Mika. This guy's on his 3rd face, she's on her 2nd. Good Luck Jerome!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:02PM
That's all.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:29PM (1 child)
> The 43 year old remained in a hospital in Paris without a face for two months while a compatible donor was sought.
OK, something to add to the list of things I never want to experience.
> "The first [face] I accepted immediately. This time it's the same."
Having a hard time imagining a guy who'd be picky in this situation.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:38PM
If you're Travolta, and they offer you Cage, do you accept?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Taibhsear on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:38PM (2 children)
What idiot doctor gave antibiotics for a cold virus?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:06PM
Saw the same thing. Im sure it turns out antibiotics actually do help in peventing sequele like pnemonia and all the "dont give antibiotics for a cold" is just another layer of bs.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:41PM
It's about secondary bacterial infection which takes over a few days after the virus spreads.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:47PM (6 children)
Using quotes make it sound like it's some kind of paraphrase, that he didn't literally get a second face transplant, when that is in fact exactly what he got.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:53PM (1 child)
1. To avoid any confusion about it being his second or third face.
2. To trigger one particular pedant.
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(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:30PM
How does it do that?
Well, pardon me for caring how Soylent comes across, I'm sure.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:54PM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:34PM (2 children)
If they were, they're nowhere in the linked article. And there's no reason to specify that it's a quote in any case; it's factual accurate. Doing so only muddies the meaning.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @11:23PM (1 child)
So? The headline might be the only place where the verbatim quote from a source was actually used in the article. And there is reason to specify that it is an actual quote: if that's exactly what a source said when they were interviewed. That's the original purpose of quotes, and if you keep seeing a different purpose for them, that's not the BBC's fault. The BBC does it everywhere on their site. It's not hard to find more examples [bbc.com] of articles [bbc.com] where [bbc.com] they do the same [bbc.com] thing [bbc.com].
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday April 20 2018, @04:07PM
In all those cases they are reporting claims, not statements of fact, except perhaps the last in which it's possibly been done more to create a shorter headline.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:26PM (2 children)
Man, the lengths some people will go to to avoid Facebook photo tagging.
(Joking aside, that condition sounds terrible, hope the second transplant holds.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:40PM (1 child)
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
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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