A fireman from Mississippi whose look became disfigured during a rescue attempt is the recipient of the earthly concern ’s most extensive face transplant . The 41 - yr - old now birth the look of a 26 - yr - old man who recently give-up the ghost in an extreme cycling accident .
Asreportedin Reuters , the 26 - hour surgery was performed by a 150 - mortal medical team ( ! ) from New York University Langone Medical Center .
Our amazing team of#facetransplantdoctors and stave performed a 26 - hour surgeryhttps://t.co/IumQlwnc9Wpic.twitter.com/UnLIuEkWAE
— NYU Langone Health ( @nyulangone)November 17 , 2015
Volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison received a full scalp and face , including spike , nozzle , lips , and upper and lower eyelid . Importantly , Hardison can now blink and catch some Z’s with his optic closed , thus staving off the blindness that threatened him .
Patrick Hardison after the operating room . ( mention : NYU Langone Medical Center / YouTube )
The face itself belonged to 26 - yr - honest-to-goodness BMX enthusiast David Rodebaugh , who was pronounced psyche dead following a tragical cycling accident .
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coincident OR take in place , [ Dr. Eduardo ] Rodriguez say , with Hardison on one operating table while Rodebaugh was on the other . The NYU aesculapian team had practiced for a full twelvemonth to get it ripe .
“ You only have one chance to land the Rover . The same get with the face , ” Rodriguez assure Reuters following a news conference in New York in the first place on Monday .
The squad slice the skin at the back of the donor ’s headway , strip each side frontwards with key pieces of bone attached at the chin , nozzle and cheekbone and then exactly draped it , like Batman ’s bonnet , onto Hardison ’s school principal .
“ Everything has to be perfectly put , ” Rodriguez say Reuters , including the finger cymbals , muscle , ear canals , lips and nerves .
The $ 1 million surgery , which NYU will graciously pay for , was view as a success after Hardison was take buy at at Macy ’s and no one in the store paused to give him a 2nd look .
Graphical mental representation of the physical scaffolding . ( NYU Langone Medical Center / YouTube )
Rodebaugh ’s female parent , who gave permission for the transplant , was shown photos of Haridson after the operation , telling the medical team that “ Patrick is beautiful . ”
I can only imagine how she felt after get a line the mug of her dead son brought back to the life in the material body of this remarkable and reason - breaking surgical procedure .
[ Reuters ]
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