Spain completed the world's first doctor full face transplant

Barcelona Vall d'Hebron University Hospital show of the transplantations of parts diagrams

According to the United Kingdom the Daily Telegraph reported by 30 Spain doctor, a medical group said that they have successfully conducted the world's first full face transplant.

This unprecedented operation was last month as a facial severely damaged in the accident young male patients.

Although past global has been making facial transplant, but they are local transplantation.

This operation of Spain Barcelona said, this is the world's first full face transplant. In addition to the skin tissue, the patients also accepted the new zygomatic, facial muscles, teeth, palate, skin, nose, mouth and jaw of the transplantations. This operation is on 20 March, the entire operation took 24 hours.

Before the operation, the 30 years of farmers in 2005 an accident in your own facial wounds, has been unable to swallow, speak normally, even breathing.

After this name did not reveal the lives of men likely to hospital for at least 2 months. Implementation of the Vall d'Hebron of Barcelona University Hospital said in a statement: "(the patients) conducted 9 operation, but did not achieve satisfactory results, consider doing a full face transplant. This is the world's first cases of this kind of surgery, 10 before are local transplant surgery. ”

World's first face transplant is 2005 France woman Isabel · Trentino Val.

Her face was bitten, the doctor gave her a new facial tissue transplantation, new nose and mouth. Since then, a number of cases in the world for this type of surgery, including China and the United States. In 2008, the United States women's Connie · Kulp was then the largest face transplant. In addition to the skin, she also accepted the bone, muscle and blood vessels and nerves.

United Kingdom facial Transplantation Research Group of Professor Peter · Butler to a complete facial transplants have been done a few months.

He led the North London Royal free hospital research group has access to ethics committee approval, can be 4 times the face transplant. He told the Joanneum · Bill · Barrett doctoral led Spain medical group achieved significant results are very appreciated.

He said: "We assure Barrett and his Spain congratulates facial transplantation, they carried out this operation is possible is by far the world's most complex a face transplant.

Secondly, I hope that the patients then everything is fine. We also remember the donor's family, we know, they donate the organs of different types, not only help the facial transplant patients, but also help a lot of other people. Help others — not only let them live, but also let them live better, this is the most noble of good morals. ”