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A woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation at the Cleveland Clinic, hospital officials said Wednesday.
Only the woman’s upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left — the other 80 percent of her face was replaced with one donated from a female cadaver during the 22-hour surgery about two weeks ago.
The patient’s name and age were not released, nor details on how she was injured. Her injuries were so horrific that she lacked a nose and palate, and could not eat or breathe on her own without a special opening into her windpipe.
After the transplant, “I must tell you how happy she was when with both her hands she could go over her face and feel that she has a nose, feel that she has a jaw,” said the lead surgeon, Dr. Maria Siemionow.
This transplant being the First of it's kind could open the door to other severely injured patients.
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The Cleveland Clinic announced Tuesday it has performed the nation’s first almost total face transplant.
A hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday that the operation was done a couple weeks ago. Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow replaced 80 percent of a woman’s face with that of a dead female donor.
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Men might want to reconsider their relationship with the cell phone according to some recent research, as their reproductive health may be affected.Men might want to reconsider their relationship with the cell phone according to some... more
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Men, beware: Using a hands-free device with a cell phone may affect your fertility if you keep your phone close to your testicles, Cleveland Clinic researchers warn in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Men who use these hands-free devices tend to carry their cell phones in their pants pocket or clipped to their belts at the waist while in talk mode. As a result, they may be exposing their testicles to damaging radiofrequency electromagnetic waves, explains Ashok Agarwal, PhD, head of the andrology laboratory and the director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Glickman Urologoical and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
"The Bluetooth devices, which many people are using these days because of health or safety concerns, may not be always so safe. There is a downside," he says.Men, beware: Using a hands-free device with a cell phone may affect your fertility if... more
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The country’s first dedicated transplant unit opened in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in February, allowing the complex surgery to be carried out by locally based doctors for the first time.
However, in order to carry out a wide range of transplants, the centre requires a steady supply of organs and doctors say a change in the law is needed to allow them to harvest livers, hearts and other organs from patients declared brain-dead.
They are also calling for a donor registration scheme, under which people prepared to donate organs in the event of their death would carry a donor card. In cases where no card was carried, the decision would be left to the patient’s next of kin.
The centre, which is managed by the US-based Cleveland Clinic, has so far carried out four kidney transplants and is preparing to perform its first liver transplant early next year. Within the coming year, the centre will diversify further to include pancreas and heart operations and eventually hopes to establish a multi-organ transplant programme.
Dr Abrar Khan, the chairman of the transplant programme, is now in discussions with the Abu Dhabi Health Authority about the possibility of legislation known as the “Brain-death law”, to increase the number of patients whose lives can be saved by transplants.
Such legislation is in effect in all GCC countries except the UAE and in countries around the world including the UK, US and Canada.
In Saudi Arabia, a decree allowing the use of organs from brain-dead patients was issued in 1982, and 85 per cent of transplants in the GCC are carried out in the kingdom. Between 1982 and 2007, there were 5,366 kidney transplants, with organs taken from brain-dead donors in 1,794 cases.
Death, said Dr Khan, could be defined in two ways. “Either your heart stops and you stop breathing or the other way is if you are brain-dead, in which case, your heart is still functioning, but your brain isn’t.”The country’s first dedicated transplant unit opened in Sheikh Khalifa Medical... more
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