It's like a new life! 22-year-old man successfully changed his face and hands, half a year no rejection reaction!

On February 5, 2021, the topic of the world's first successful face-changing surgery was rushed to the Sina Weibo hot search list.
, a 22-year-old man from New Jersey, managed to change his face and hands without any abnormalities in his body six months after surgery, according to a new report.
it is understood that Di Mayo suffered a serious car accident in 2018, the scene of the car accident burned his whole body, burns area of 80%, the face completely disfigured, but fortunately recovered a life.
To get back to normal life, DiMio underwent a 24-hour operation at New York University's Langone Medical Center that involved a number of delicate operations that involved connecting blood vessels, nerves, tendons, and eventually managed to replace the entire face and hands.
face transplant, the world's first joint face and hands transplant, was reported by the New York Post on February 3.
, patients do not experience rejection, can dress, eat, and even go to the gym.
-face surgery with screenshots of the Daily Economic News Weibo: The innovation of the technology of the very difficult medical project is jaw-dropping.
Face-changing surgery, a surgical procedure that has only emerged in recent years, is not as simple as cosmetic surgery, and the steps to perform face-changing surgery are complex and cumbersome: first, to find donors (the deceased) who are similar to the recipient, such as skin tone, skin, face shape, facial muscles, etc., it is extremely difficult to find the right donor.
the BBC, people die every day because they don't wait for matching organ donations.
, remove the donor's face skin from the hair to the ear and jaw and transplant it into the recipient's face.
the procedure, doctors must precisely join the recipient's damaged blood vessels and nerves with the transplanted face, and then stitch the "new face" for at least 24 hours.
surgery, the recipient's new face should remain in normal shape, without affecting eating, breathing and vision.
it is worth emphasizing that face-replacement surgery must be carried out quickly within hours of the donor's death.
face replacement surgery is a very risky project, if the nerve points do not all match, the new face will appear expressionless, dysfunction and so on.
addition, after changing the face to take medicine for life, which changes the face of the liver, kidneys have some harm.
more dangerous, patients are also more likely to reject cells from the new face, the rejection process will cause great pain to the patient, the face will turn black or even fall off, in severe cases will be life-threatening.
, patients face a strange face when they change their face, and they develop a huge sense of fear and identity disorder.
fact, Di Mayo is not the first person to undergo face-changing surgery, with the Times reporting that there have been 40 face-changing operations around the world, and that people have had different lives since changing their faces, six of whom have died.
among these face changers, some can not identify with their "new identity", some constantly and exclusion response to struggle, some endure daily insults, but some people cherish life, with a new attitude to face life.
, with the progress of medicine, allogeneic tissue and organ transplantation has been developed by leaps and forwards, kidney, heart, liver, lung and other organ transplants have become almost routine surgery, bringing good news to many patients.
face-changing technique is still a new thing, and its future development and future is a great challenge for human beings.
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