Face Transplants: Further Reading


Published On: May 6th, 2009
culp_D_20090505173901.jpgCleveland Clinic via Associated Press

Connie Culp, shown before and after her surgery.

Connie Culp, the first U.S. patient to get a face transplant, appeared in public for the first time today. As the result of a gunshot wound, she had no nose and no palate, and could not breathe on her own or eat solid food. Doctors replaced about 80% of her face. .

These sorts of procedures are quite complex — Culp’s surgery lasted 22 hours. Those Health Blog readers hankering for more detail about the surgical technique, its aftermath and the broader implications might consider digitally thumbing through some of the key papers published on the subject in the past few years.

This describes a partial face transplantation for a French woman who lost most of the lower part of her face. And this details how the same patient was doing 18 months after the procedure — pretty well overall, though she had a few episodes in which her body’s immune system tried to reject the transplant. This describes a face transplant and follow-up for a Chinese man whose face was “severely injured by a bear.”

Readers who want to ponder the deeper meaning of face transplantation might look at “Facial allograft transplantation,” from the Journal of Medical Ethics, as well as  from the same journal.

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