Tag: face transplant

The attack left the former nurse badly disfigured, blind in one eye and legally blind in the other.

A 22-year-old car crash victim has had the world's first successful face and double hand transplant from the same donor in New Jersey, US.

The team reports on the progress of six patients - four men and two women - in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine

NEW YORK: A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a home fire rescue received the world's most extensive face transplant, New York University Langone Medical Center said on Monday.