Face and hand transplantation are relatively new in the world of surgery. The key purpose for transplants is to restore function in patients who have experienced some sort of extreme trauma, but ...

Pat Hardison, the MS firefighter who survived one of the world’s most extensive face transplants, will appear on ABC’s ...

After 6-Year Ordeal, Connie Culp prepares to head home. Aug. 26, 2010— -- For the first time since her face was destroyed by a shotgun blast in 2004, Connie Culp can now walk down the street and ...

In 2018, Joe DiMeo got in a car crash that left his body 80 percent burned. Two years later, he received a historic face and double hand transplant at age 22. His donor was 47 years old Immediately ...

July 7, 2003 — Editor's Note: A French-Italian team performed the first hand transplant in September 1998, but the hand had to be removed after 23 months because the patient was not compliant with ...

'I didn't want to talk to anyone about it. I wish I would have now.' Only about 50 people in the world have ever received a face transplant, and the story of how this man got to this point is full of ...

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Dallas Wiens reveals new face after March transplant. May 9, 2011— -- Six weeks after receiving the first full face transplant in the United States, Dallas Wiens, a 26-year-old construction ...

NEW YORK CITY -- NYU Langone Health successfully completed a first-of-its-kind surgery that could change the medical world forever. A patient received the first-ever eye and partial face transplant, ...

LONDON -- In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany. Dr. Laurent ...