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Face Transplant Patient Smokes Again
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jan 18, 2006 06:05pm |
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| Category | Idiocy |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TUCSON, Ariz. - The world's first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.
"It is a problem," Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who led the team that performed the pioneering transplant in France on Nov. 27, acknowledged on Wednesday.
The woman's French surgeons made their first scientific presentation on the partial face transplant at a medical conference here this week.
The news about her smoking came even as American surgeons said that they were growing more comfortable with the French doctors' decision to try the operation and that they hoped to offer such transplants to more patients. |
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