Worlds First Face Transplant Recipient Dies

Vanilla Gorilla · Sep 6, 2016

First face transplant patient Isabelle Dinoire dies in France

The first-ever person to have a face transplant, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, has died, French doctors say.
In 2005, surgeons gave her a new nose and mouth after she was disfigured by her pet dog.
But heavy use of immunosuppressant drugs weakened her and she succumbed to cancer in April at the age of 49, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says.
News of her death, announced by a hospital in Amiens, was delayed to respect her family's privacy.

She told the BBC in 2009 that when she looked in the mirror she saw a mixture of herself and the donor. "The donor is always with me," she said.
Figaro newspaper said she had suffered another transplant rejection. The strong anti-rejection treatment she was receiving led to two cancers, it added.
In her BBC interview she said her disfigurement by her dog had come as a result of an attempt to end her life.
After taking an overdose of sleeping pills, she awoke lying beside a pool of blood, with her pet Labrador at her side. The dog had apparently found her unconscious, and desperate to rouse her, had gnawed away at her face.

The injuries to her mouth, nose and chin were so extreme that doctors ruled out a routine face reconstruction. Instead they proposed a ground-breaking face transplant.
She was happy with the surgery but expressed distress at the attention from the media and passers-by that the operation brought her.
In recent years, face transplants have been performed in several countries, including the US, Spain, Turkey, China and Poland.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37290986

Mattekat · Sep 6, 2016

"Desperate to arouse her it had gnawed away at her face"?

Ashalicious · Sep 6, 2016

Mattekat said:

"Desperate to arouse her it had gnawed away at her face"?
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"Rouse"...not "arouse"...

I had to read that twice.

Transplant rejection is a very real thing, sadly. I lost a friend several years ago after she had a lung transplant that went into chronic rejection.

vikinggundy · Sep 7, 2016

That's terribly sad. Being the first for anything sounds so scarry.

Now they are planning the world's first head transplant.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3721986/Patient-set-undergo-world-s-human-head-transplant-says-Dr-Frankenstein-reveal-details-operation-month.html

MatthieuF · Sep 8, 2016

It is unfortunate,all of it. I have as well lost friends to such rejections, tragic.
Even in such transplant, she still was of great beauty

Paix à son âme

Ajay0 · Sep 8, 2016

Spiritually speaking, I would say that her death by cancer, which can be attributed as a natural death, is far better than committing suicide.
That would have brought about a lot of bad karma.

Also the world's first face transplantation took place successfully because of her, leading to many other similar transplants, giving hope to the disfigured.

The dog is the hero over here who saved his mistress physically and spiritually.

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