Boston Hospital Becomes 2nd in US to Offer Help for Nancy Pelosi, and Hitlary

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Boston Hospital Becomes Second in U.S. to Offer Partial Face Transplants

Monday, July 30, 2007

BOSTON - Brigham and Women's Hospital has given a surgical team permission

to perform partial face transplants to certain disfigured patients, a

newspaper reported.

Brigham and Women's is the second U.S. hospital to make public its plans to

offer the rare medical procedure, The Boston Globe reported. The first

hospital was the Cleveland Clinic.

To date, only three partial face transplants have been announced worldwide.

Two were performed in France, and one in China.

Critics argue that it's unethical to expose patients to the risks of a

transplant for a non-lifesaving procedure. The newspaper reported that

Brigham and Women's would sanction transplants only for patients already

taking immunosuppressant drugs because that would reducee the risk of tissue

rejection and infection.

Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who is associate director of the hospital's burn unit,

said he's motivated in part by the "helplessness I feel when I have a very

difficult case." He said he has seen four patients in recent years who might

qualify.

Isabelle Dinoire received the world's first partial face transplant. Dinoire

was severely disfigured in May 2005 by her pet Labrador. In November 2005,

surgeons grafted the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman onto her

face.

Dinoire's immune system nearly rejected the transplant twice, but she was

given immunosuppressants that helped overcome the threat.

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:45:56 -0400, "Patriot Games" <Patriot@America.com> wrote:

>Boston Hospital Becomes Second in U.S. to Offer Partial Face Transplants

>Monday, July 30, 2007

Did anyone else notice that during the recent democratic debate on CNN that as the

evening wore on Hillary's cheeks right below her eyes kept sinking deeper and deeper?

At first I thought maybe she'd had plastic surgery and it hadn't healed yet then

decided maybe she had just used the old preparation H trick and it only holds up for

so long.....AAC

Republicans look like they're ditching the next YouTube/CNN debate.

McCain and Ron Paul are the only confirmed participants. Mitt Romney

gave a great answer about the presidency being above answering questions

from a snowman.....Rush

"AnAmericanCitizen" <NoAmnesty@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:45:56 -0400, "Patriot Games" <Patriot@America.com>

> wrote:

>>Boston Hospital Becomes Second in U.S. to Offer Partial Face Transplants

>>Monday, July 30, 2007

> Did anyone else notice that during the recent democratic debate on CNN

> that as the

> evening wore on Hillary's cheeks right below her eyes kept sinking deeper

> and deeper?

> At first I thought maybe she'd had plastic surgery and it hadn't healed

> yet then

> decided maybe she had just used the old preparation H trick and it only

> holds up for

> so long.....AAC

Hahahahhahahaha!!!!