Surgery: A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and surgeons perform the first near-total face transplant in the USA

A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic recently performed the first near-total face transplant in the United States. The 22-hour procedure was the largest and most complex face transplant in the world; 80 percent of the patient's face was transplanted. The female patient had suffered severe facial trauma. The transplant team led by Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director of Plastic Surgery Research and Head of Microsurgery Training.

Video courtesy of Cleveland Clinic

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• face
• transplant
• facial
• trauma
• cleveland
• clinic
• siemionow
• disfigurement
• surgery
• dermatology
• plastic-surgery
• microsurgery
• transplantation

[xconeticx]

im going to thumbs this down since i saw no blood

[NURSELINDA305]

Where are his/her goggles? hummmmmmmmmm

[torgosassistant]

wtf they showed NOTHING!