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French Surgeons Perform World's First Hands, Face Transplant
The 30-year-old recipient, on a donor waiting list for more a year, "had scars from burns to the face and hands so severe that it robbed him of all social life," the hospital said in a statement.
The operation, which began Saturday night, lasted 30 hours and required a medical team of more than 40, according to the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil, a suburb southeast of Paris.
"It is a success, he is in good condition," one of the two head surgeons, Laurent Lanteiri, told AFP. "The patient is in post-op intensive care, which will last at least 15 days."
Surgeons replaced the patient's entire face above the lips, including the scalp, nose, ears and forehead.
"Everything was reconnected -- the nerves, tendons, arteries and veins," said Lantieri, who performed the face transplant.
Another team led by Christian Dumontier, a surgeon at the Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris, replaced both hands, including the wrists.
Doctors also succeeded in grafting new upper and lower eyelids -- a world first.
"We will have to wait and see whether the nerves will grow back and give them mobility," he said.
There have been five other face transplants to date, three of them in France. The most recent was completed on March 27 at the same hospital.
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