MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'face transplants'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:02:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3545418&cid=t_199030_87_f&fid=35060&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthnewsblog.com%2Fblog%2F504101 A Spanish man who underwent a partial face transplant in January appeared in public Tuesday for the first time since his operation. There appears to be a great deal of swelling that has not gone down, but he looks great considering the bottom two-thirds of his face were replaced. You can read more about the patient, known only as Rafael, here and here. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds (Source: HealthNewsBlog.com) HealthNewsBlog.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3545418 Tue, 04 May 2010 18:00:00 +0100 3545418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389720&cid=t_199030_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fface-transplants-good-our-reactions.html I guess face transplants--wherein a patient receives the "face" of a cadaver--are news because they are new. But I don't see why anyone would oppose them--at least as a reconstructive procedure. Case in point: The first American woman to receive this procedure after her face was literally blown away by a shotgun blast, has stepped forward to explain what it has meant to her. From the story:When Connie Culp heard a little kid call her a monster because of the shotgun blast that left her face horribly disfigured, she pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look like. Years later, as the nation's first face transplant recipient, she's stepped forward to show the rest of the world what she looks like now.Her expressions are still a bit wooden, but she can talk, smile... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389720 Wed, 06 May 2009 15:25:00 +0100 2389720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2065368&cid=t_199030_87_f&fid=35060&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthnewsblog.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fhnblog.pl%3Fhnblog%3D1220081 The first partial face transplant was conducted in France in 2005. The 38-year-old female patient named Isabelle Dinoire had lost her had nose, lips and chin after being attacked by a dog. The transplant was a success but the French woman says she is "still struggling to come to terms with what she sees in the mirror every day." CBS says the transplants are complex and they carry the risk of both physical and psychological effects. Wikipedia lists a few other face transplants done on patiented who had suffered severe face damage in thresher accidents. The first U.S. face transplant was recently done and the patient is said to be "very happy." Julie Chen talks to a plastic surgeon in the clip below about facial transplation. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds (Source: HealthNewsBl... HealthNewsBlog.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2065368 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0100 2065368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1726339&cid=t_199030_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F08%2F22%2Fface-off-face-on%2F Face Transplants - science fiction or medical reality? French surgeon Laurent Lantieri, one of the doctors involved in operating on a Chinese man severely disfigured by a genetic disease, believes they are becoming a medical reality. He’s quoted in a recent article in The Lancet as saying “There is no reason to think these face transplants would not be as common as kidney or liver transplants one day”. Just three years after the successful partial face transplant for a French woman viciously attacked by a dog, two more people have benefited from partial face transplants using tissue from deceased or comatose donors. One case involved a Chinese man who had been attacked by a bear in 2004, losing his left eye, nose, and a large portion of his upper lip and left check. After... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1726339 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:10:26 +0100 1726339