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Title: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: George on April 24, 2010, 01:45:19 am
Face/off indeed.

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A hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a man a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features after he lost his face in an accident.

Other transplant experts lauded the surgery but were not sure it could technically be called 'full-face.'

The operation was carried out by a 30-member medical team in late March and took 24 hours to perform, according to the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona.

The patient now has a completely new face from his hairline down and only one visible scar, which looks like a wrinkle running across his neck, said Dr. Joan Pere Barret, the surgeon who led the team.

"If you look him in the face, you see a normal person, like anyone else we have as a patient in the hospital," Barret told The Associated Press on Friday.

Barret declined to name the patient or give details of the accident five years ago in which the man lost most of his face, saying only that he was a Spaniard between 20 and 40 years old and was recovering well. The man cannot yet speak, eat or smile, but can see and swallow saliva, the surgeon said.

Prior to the latest surgery, the patient had undergone surgery nine times and could only breathe and be fed through tubes. He also had problems speaking.

In Britain, the UK Facial Transplantation Research Team called the Spanish operation "the most complex face transplantation operation there has probably been in the world to date." It stopped short, however, of calling it the world's first full-face transplant.

Barret said the operation involved removing what was left of the man's face and giving him a replacement "in one piece."

"It is a little bit like the movie with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage," he said, referring to the 1997 thriller "Face/Off", in which Travolta undergoes a high-tech medical procedure to acquire the villain Cage's appearance and infiltrate his terrorist gang.

"He is coming along well. He sits up, he walks in his hospital room and he watches television," Barret said.

Barret said there have been 10 partial-face transplant operations carried out in the world so far but this was the first involving a person's whole face. The world's first partial-face transplant was done on a woman in France in 2005. Other partial-face operations have been performed in the United States and China, as well as in other Spanish hospitals in Valencia and Seville.

The Spanish operation is similar to a near-total face transplant carried out in 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio, on a woman who was shot in the face.

But the Spanish case "seems to us to be more complex," said Neil Huband, a spokesman for the British transplant research team, based at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

He said the patient in Spain had also been shot in the face.

Dr. Maria Siemionow, who operated on the woman in Ohio, said the Spanish team had done great work. But a diagram she says she has seen about the Spanish surgery does not make clear that the team replaced the man's whole face, leaving doubts about his eyelids and jaw, she told the AP.

"It would probably be much more safer for the Barcelona team to say near-total," Siemionow said.

Barret said his team used the same plastic and microsurgery techniques as in those previous cases but decided to try a full-face transplant because the damage suffered by the man was so severe.

A week after the operation, the patient asked to look at himself in the mirror and was satisfied with what he saw, Barret said.

The patient had undergone psychiatric tests before the operation to determine if he would be able to confront having a totally new face, the hospital said.

He is expected to remain hospitalized for two months.
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Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Monkeroony on May 03, 2010, 03:44:06 am
Whilst I would be eternally grateful to the Man that died in order for me to be able to have his face, I would feel a bit uncomfortable looking in the mirror and seeing someone elses nose, chin etc.

I think it is something that would freak me out unless I was able to speak to his family to find out more about his life and how he died.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: fluffymoochicken on May 03, 2010, 08:33:30 am
Gee, I can't wait for the day when people can transform themselves into real life furries. (http://http://forums.sega.com/images/icons/icon7.gif)
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: George on May 03, 2010, 11:24:20 am
Quote from: "fluffymoochicken"
Gee, I can't wait for the day when people can transform themselves into real life furries. (http://http://forums.sega.com/images/icons/icon7.gif)
Me neither, hunting down deer gets old after awhile.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Sega Uranus on May 03, 2010, 11:47:15 am
I would become a furry too if Marlon Brando was going to be my landlord. That would be badass!
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: fluffymoochicken on May 03, 2010, 01:23:27 pm
Quote from: "George"
Me neither, hunting down deer gets old after awhile.
Maybe you should join the Texas Border Patrol and shoot down some Mexicans instead. (http://http://forums.sega.com/images/icons/icon7.gif)

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I would become a furry too if Marlon Brando was going to be my landlord. That would be badass!
If a dead guy was your landlord, then you could get away with not paying rent. That means extra money to spend on your furry habits! ^__^
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: George on May 03, 2010, 01:32:04 pm
Maybe I should.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Autosaver on May 03, 2010, 03:10:49 pm
I thought the cleveland clinic did this first?
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Monkeroony on May 06, 2010, 06:43:01 am
So this thread could have dealt with the gravitas surrounding personal identity and how you are percieved, coupled with how far surgeries should go; including elective surgery perhaps.

But, instead it turns into some semi-gay furry loving post.

Jesus, the people that frequent these boards...
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Autosaver on May 06, 2010, 06:31:43 pm
What do you expect, this is a furry community.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: MadeManG74 on May 06, 2010, 06:56:07 pm
Quote from: "Autosaver"
What do you expect, this is a furry community.

No it isn't. Fuck off.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: fluffymoochicken on May 06, 2010, 07:04:30 pm
Quote from: "Autosaver"
What do you expect, this is a furry community.
Indeeeeed! ^__^

I can't wait to see real life furry anthropomorphic people walking around... The possibilities are astounding!
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: MadeManG74 on May 06, 2010, 07:08:21 pm
Quote from: "fluffymoochicken"
Quote from: "Autosaver"
What do you expect, this is a furry community.
Indeeeeed! ^__^

I can't wait to see real life furry anthropomorphic people walking around... The possibilities are astounding!

I don't think you realise just how horrific that would actually look.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Sega Uranus on May 06, 2010, 07:13:12 pm
Quote from: "Autosaver"
What do you expect, this is a furry community.

Half of the members here do not even like Sonic anymore, how many other furry franchises does SEGA even have? Their Disney games do not count, NO!

It is all about sexy Joe Musashi with the hilt of his sword just barely covering his reproductive organs. All the ladies love it, you know those two females on the forums. They are really into it.

Quote from: "MadeManG74"
Quote from: "fluffymoochicken"
Quote from: "Autosaver"
What do you expect, this is a furry community.
Indeeeeed! ^__^

I can't wait to see real life furry anthropomorphic people walking around... The possibilities are astounding!

I don't think you realise just how horrific that would actually look.

Yeah, he is picturing the cartoony ones, but IRL everyone would just look like werewolves.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: fluffymoochicken on May 06, 2010, 07:33:22 pm
Quote from: "MadeManG74"
Half of the members here do not even like Sonic anymore, how many other furry franchises does SEGA even have? Their Disney games do not count, NO!
SEGA supports furry transformations!

(http://http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/altered-beast/3.gif)

It's going to be awesome! ^__^
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: MadeManG74 on May 06, 2010, 07:46:15 pm
Who would be attracted to the wolf when those two beefcakes looked so hot in their human form?

Er- I mean, umm... shit.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: fluffymoochicken on May 06, 2010, 07:49:41 pm
Quote from: "MadeManG74"
Who would be attracted to the wolf when those two beefcakes looked so hot in their human form?

Er- I mean, umm... shit.
With each "POWER UP!", the bulge in your pants grows a bit larger. (http://http://forums.sega.com/images/icons/icon7.gif)
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: George on May 06, 2010, 09:04:32 pm
I would not mind turning into a wolf, but if I did, I would just bite people in the throat and devour their souls.

Only furry community can gay up wolves, I swear.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Barry the Nomad on May 06, 2010, 09:11:48 pm
Vampires have been ruined too, but I blame emos and goths for that.

The only thing that hasn't been ruined is frankensteins.

edit: too late: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =100501003 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=100501003)
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: George on May 06, 2010, 09:24:02 pm
Twilight was written by a woman. So I blame women.
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: fluffymoochicken on May 06, 2010, 09:38:00 pm
Quote from: "George"
Only furry community can gay up wolves, I swear.
Homosexuality has been observed among real wolves before, so there you go. ^__^

You just have to accept them for who they are. <3
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: MadeManG74 on May 06, 2010, 10:01:46 pm
Quote from: "Barry the Nomad"
Vampires have been ruined too, but I blame emos and goths for that.

The only thing that hasn't been ruined is frankensteins.

edit: too late: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =100501003 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=100501003)

Eh, theres still enough cool vampires around to counter-balance the lame-o Twilight ones.

If not we always have the classics. And Cassidy.
(http://http://liveforfilms.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/preacher-cassidy1.jpg)
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: George on May 07, 2010, 02:32:36 am
Quote from: "fluffymoochicken"
Quote from: "George"
Only furry community can gay up wolves, I swear.
Homosexuality has been observed among real wolves before, so there you go. ^__^

You just have to accept them for who they are. <3
I do not care that they are gay, just don't think they are 'cute', you can be fearsome and gay. Look at Boy George. (no relation to me).
Title: Re: First total face transplant performed in Spain
Post by: Autosaver on May 08, 2010, 08:33:02 pm
Quote from: "fluffymoochicken"
Quote from: "MadeManG74"
Who would be attracted to the wolf when those two beefcakes looked so hot in their human form?

Er- I mean, umm... shit.
With each "POWER UP!", the bulge in your pants grows a bit larger. (http://http://forums.sega.com/images/icons/icon7.gif)

Imagine getting a SUPER mushroom. :)