Near-Total Face Transplant Press Conference - Maria Siemionow, MD

Dr. Siemionow discusses this case to members of the media assembled at the Cleveland Clinic.

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

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Science & Technology

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

[SillyGrandpa]

Congratulations to DR. Maria Siemionow and the team of surgeons who have successfully accomplished this surgery. Dr Siemionow, who is a graduate of the Poznan Medical School in Poland, has completed the first transplant of this type in the USA and only the fourth in the world. My hat off to you !!!!

[InuitkaForeignDisney]

I've just read an intrview with her, she's a very extraordinary woman :)

[Harvari83]

...of course she does! and she is Polish as I am. I am very proud of her!

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[mbfc2878]

This woman has an amazing gift. She deserves all the praise and thanks for her tireless dedication and hard work. I am so impressed with her. I hope we hear from her again soon.