Raulken co.UK - First US face transplant revealed

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60? "60px": "auto" ); height:expression(do*****ent.body.clientHeight > 60? "60px": "auto" );' onload=this.style.filter='progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#000000,direction=135,strength=5)'>The recipient of the first US almost-total face transplant has appeared before the media for the first time. Connie Culp, a 46-year-old mother-of-two was left without the middle section of her face after her husband shot her in 2004. Ms Culp, whose identity had been previously withheld, paid tribute to the donor family at a news conference. Surgeons at a clinic in a Cleveland, Ohio, replaced 80% of Ms Culp's face with that of a dead female donor. "I guess I'm the one you came to see today, " she told reporters but added that "I think it's more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person's face." The transplant is only the fourth to be carried out. Two operations have been conducted in France and one in China. Life-changing Ms Culp recalled that when plastic surgeon Dr. Risal Djohan first examined her injuries two months after she had been shot, "he didn't think, he wasn't sure, if he could fix me, but he'd try". Ms Culp (pictured here before the attack) urged people not to judge those with disfigurements "Here I am, five years later......I got me my nose," she told reporters in good humour. "When somebody has a disfigurement and don't look as pretty as you do, don't judge them, because you never know what happened to them," Ms Culp added. The clinic's...
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