For several years, the narrative held Dallas had repeated episodes of rejection, each requiring stronger immunosuppression. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Doctors told the family that wiens would likely be paralyzed from the neck down and would never speak or produce enough saliva to eat solid food They put him in a medically induced coma for three months. Roughly 20% of face transplant patients have died from rejection, kidney failure, or heart failure
Living with a stranger’s face was as psychologically difficult as ethicists feared Two years after the transplant she spoke to the strangeness of having “someone else’s” mouth “it was odd to touch it with my tongue Patients were put through the unthinkable twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance.
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