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- Katie Stubblefield Face Transplant Patient Story | Cleveland . . .
At 21, Katie Stubblefield is the youngest patient in the United States to receive face transplant with the help of Cleveland Clinic doctors
- Face transplant - Mayo Clinic
A face transplant may enhance your life, but it is a high-risk procedure You and your transplant team can't predict exactly how you will look and how your immune system will respond to the new face You'll need to take special medications (immunosuppressants) for the rest of your life to reduce the risk of your body rejecting the transplanted face
- Facial Transplantation Pushes Beyond Limits of Reconstruction
In a face transplant patient, the supposition at the time was that the rejection would be immediately noticed—unlike a solid internal organ like a kidney or heart—and that greater risks could be taken, such as single-agent therapy
- Face Transplant - Johns Hopkins Medicine
A face transplant can be life-changing for individuals who have been disfigured after a severe injury, were born with differences or suffered from burns
- Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through . . .
The case for face transplants seemingly made, several teams scrambled to perform their nation’s first The US saw the first partial face transplant (2008), then the first full one (2011); the first African American recipient (2019); the first face and double hand transplant combined (2020); the first to include an eye (2023)
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