Sentences with phrase «someone facing a transplant»

The lady in question not only lost her entire face and eyes (the face transplant hasn't given her back her sight) but her hands as well.

In April of this year, the team reported that patients responded well, with no serious complications, suggesting the therapy might also work for face transplants.

Face transplants require a lifetime of immune - suppressing drugs to keep the body from rejecting the tissue.

Hale had long championed face transplants as an option for treating blast injuries.

At present, he sees only one way to give patients functional tissue capable of sensory perception: face transplants.

Then, in November 2005, French surgeons performed the world's first partial face transplant, on a woman whose Labrador mix had mauled her.

Nelson, for one, has no interest in a face transplant.

In December 2008, AFIRM collaborators at the Cleveland Clinic led by Maria Siemionow performed the first near - total face transplant in the U.S..

Fong eloquently outlines the history of such advances, reminding us how experiments by plastic surgeons on second world war burns victims effectively paved the way for the first full - face transplants earlier this century.

The researchers explored the «indications and anatomic feasibility» of periorbital transplantation — transplanting the periorbital subunit alone or as part of a full face transplant.

On November 27, 2005, a team of French surgeons led by Jean - Michel Dubernard of the Édouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon successfully performed the world's first partial face transplant.

«Heroic firefighter who underwent most extensive face transplant is thriving: Surgical team continues to report milestones — including no episode of organ rejection.»

To date, face transplants in the U.S. have been supported, at least in part, by research funding.

Since last year's face transplant, other initiatives have progressed.

The hospital's Institutional Review Board first signed off on the face transplant concept in 2004.

Surgeons have performed the first U.S. face transplant, transferring most of the visage of a corpse onto a woman who was missing most of her own face, doctors said today.

Since 2005, two partial face transplants have been performed in France, and another one took place in China.

As soon as surgeons in France had performed the first partial face transplant (below) late in November, psychologists began to question whether the patient was mentally stable enough to handle the stressful, high - risk procedure.

Surely that would be a good idea for someone facing a transplant.

I was especially impressed with the script that weaves all these elements together in a story about someone who receives a face transplant after an accident.

Self / Less Film Review by Kam Williams Shades of Face / Off in Brain Transplant Sci - Fi Thriller In the 1997 thriller Face / Off, an FBI agent underwent a face transplant in order to crack a terrorist plot.

Dr Jane Mathers is a trauma expert whose new patient, a man recovering from a face transplant after a road accident, prompts some of her own shocks to resurface.

In a big night for female filmmakers, the jury grand prize award went to Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska's Mug, «a film that explores bigotry in its story about a young man forced to undergo face transplant surgery after he is disfigured in an accident.»

It would be like one of my siblings getting a face transplant.

Not exact matches

Many of these» especially those awaiting a heart or liver transplant» face situations that are immediately life» threatening, and they will die if a suitable organ for transplant is not....

The other day I caught myself debating with them what would happen if people's faces got transplanted to their bums and their bums transplanted to their faces.

NYU surgeons hope a 3 - D printed reproduction will encourage people to donate the faces of dying family members for use as transplants.

Lifelong immunosuppressive therapy is among the complex lifestyle changes faced by renal transplant patients.

«We created a titanium mesh cage to a three - dimensional shape and fit, for his lower jaw, using computer - aided design, based on CT scans of his face,» explains Patrick Warnke from the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, who carried out the jaw transplant.

«Her work has the potential to change the face of transplantation and to save countless lives,» said Dr. James Markmann, chief of transplant surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

In a 2003 study in rats, Siemionow had shown that TOL - 101 allowed surgeons to transplant face and scalp tissue from one animal to another.

Cancer patients undergoing stem cell transplantation face two hurdles: the short - term challenge of having enough white blood cells to fight possible infections immediately following the transplant and the long - term challenge of sustaining stem cell function to maintain immunity.

All these strategies face a common problem: It is maddeningly diff icult to judge whether the approach has failed or succeeded because there are no reliable «biomarkers» that indicate whether a person has become tolerant to a transplant.

«Our goal was to demonstrate how the AKI trends have changed over time in the United States and AKI continues to be a vexing and a serious problem faced by non-kidney transplant recipients,» he says.

After processing, the fat is grafted (transplanted) to the treated area, such as the face.

The limited availability of donor lungs can lead to long delays before transplant, leaving patients to face a mortality rate of up to 40 percent while they wait.

Clinicians and researchers have raised ethical questions about the transplant, as well as concerns about whether Dinoire was stable enough to give informed consent for the procedure — which dips into uncharted issues involving the relationship between the face and personal identity — and for the regimen of immunosuppressive drugs she must now take for the rest of her life.

However, regenerative medicine expert Patrick Warnke of the University of Kiel in Germany (who was not part of the transplant team) points out that «there was no quality of life for the patient without major parts of her face.

Rodriguez also concludes that including selective facial bone structure in addition to the chin of the donor provided natural bone marrow stem cells to help the transplanted face thrive following the surgery, and provided the necessary positional support for the facial soft tissues.

The hurdles there were similar to those we faced with heart transplants: overcoming a shortage of tissue and preventing rejection.

Following a tissue graft transplant — such as that of the face, hand, arm or leg — it is standard for doctors to immediately give transplant recipients immunosuppressant drugs to prevent their body's immune system from rejecting and attacking the new body part.

When facing a scarcity of transplanted bone marrow at the lowest dose, these HSCs prioritized T cell production.

Then they rerouted blood vessels and one or more types of nerves to the transplanted tissue from the nonparalyzed side of the face.

A thoracic surgeon who attracted widespread attention for transplanting artificial tracheae into patients — and then faced scientific misconduct charges — has been found not guilty in the first of two investigations into his work.

People who get a kidney transplant usually face a life sentence of drugs that suppress their immune systems — otherwise, their body will reject the new organ.

The team transplanted 80 percent of the donor's face, painstakingly hooking up arteries, blood vessels, nerves, muscle and bone; the recipient still has her own chin, forehead, upper eyelids and lower lip.

Some have questioned the ethics of transplanting the face of a dead person onto that of a living one, because a failed procedure would be painful and emotionally devastating.

Having waited months, sometimes years, for a donor and survived major surgery, transplant patients face an uphill battle to prevent their immune systems from rejecting their new organ.

► In a Tuesday ScienceInsider, Erik Stokstad reported that Paolo Macchiarini, a visiting professor at the Karolinska Institute «who attracted widespread attention for transplanting artificial tracheae into patients — and then faced scientific misconduct charges — has been found not guilty in the first of two investigations into his work.»

Initial revulsion at heart transplants gave way in the face of success.