Pawn Power
20th May 2007, 14:47
PARIS: A year after a Frenchwoman received the world's first partial face transplant, doctors said she was gaining sensitivity and facial mobility.
Her medical team at a hospital in Amiens in northern France issued a photograph and a statement Monday, a year after they transplanted the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman onto Isabelle Dinoire.
In the new photo, Dinoire is almost smiling. Compared with a photo taken in February she appears to have better control over her face. She appeared at a news conference then, her only formal public appearance since the operation.
http://img.iht.com/images/2006/11/29/web.1128face.jpg
French face-transplant recipient is said to be doing well (http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/28/news/face.php)
Dinoire's immune system nearly rejected the transplant twice, the doctors' statement said, but she was given immuno-depressants that helped overcome the threats.
Last month, an ethics panel approved a London hospital's plan to carry out what could be the world's first full-face transplant, although no candidate has been selected. The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio is also working on a plan.
Her medical team at a hospital in Amiens in northern France issued a photograph and a statement Monday, a year after they transplanted the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman onto Isabelle Dinoire.
In the new photo, Dinoire is almost smiling. Compared with a photo taken in February she appears to have better control over her face. She appeared at a news conference then, her only formal public appearance since the operation.
http://img.iht.com/images/2006/11/29/web.1128face.jpg
French face-transplant recipient is said to be doing well (http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/28/news/face.php)
Dinoire's immune system nearly rejected the transplant twice, the doctors' statement said, but she was given immuno-depressants that helped overcome the threats.
Last month, an ethics panel approved a London hospital's plan to carry out what could be the world's first full-face transplant, although no candidate has been selected. The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio is also working on a plan.