{"id":4319,"date":"2013-05-24T21:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T21:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2014-06-07T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T00:01:21","slug":"worlds-first-life-saving-face-transplant-by-polish-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/worlds-first-life-saving-face-transplant-by-polish-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s first life-saving face transplant by Polish doctors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polish doctors have carried out the world’s first life-saving face transplant (przeszczep twarzy<\/strong>), weeks after a 33-year-old man was disfigured by a machine in a workplace accident.<\/p>\n

It is Poland’s first face transplant and also the first in the world done to save the patient’s life.<\/p>\n

The man, an employee at a stonemason’s workshop and only identified as Grzegorz, was severely maimed on April 23, when a machine used to cut stone ripped out a large chunk of his face.<\/p>\n

An attempt to reattach it failed – though it saved the man’s vision and and a part of his face – and because of the breadth and depth of the lesions “his life was on the line”.<\/p>\n

Doctors were lucky to find a donor within two weeks, a man in his thirties whose family immediately agreed to the operation.<\/p>\n

A team of doctors at the\u00a0Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in the southern city of Gliwice\u00a0– the only one licenced to perform face transplants in Poland – performed the 27-hour facial surgery on May 15, with the patient’s full consent.<\/p>\n

He and his family approved the action plan and the associated risks. He was even enthusiastic.<\/p>\n

Now, a week later, “his condition is still serious because it was a huge operation … (but) he is breathing on his own. Unable to speak, he is communicating via head and hand movements,” the doctor added.<\/p>\n

Polish media published a photograph of the man flashing a thumbs-up from his hospital bed, with thick black stitches encircling his face.<\/p>\n

“The patient will be able to eat, breathe and see. In eight months’ time, he should have full facial motor control.”<\/p>\n

French doctors carried out the world’s first successful face transplant in 2005 on Isabelle Dinoire, a 38-year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.<\/p>\n

Since then, over 20 other transplants have been carried out worldwide, including in Belgium, Spain, Turkey and the US.<\/p>\n

Do nast<\/strong>\u0119pnego razu… <\/strong>(Till next time…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polish doctors have carried out the world’s first life-saving face transplant (przeszczep twarzy), weeks after a 33-year-old man was disfigured by a machine in a workplace accident. It is Poland’s first face transplant and also the first in the world done to save the patient’s life. The man, an employee at a stonemason’s workshop and…<\/p>\n

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