Czech physician will transplant faces in US
By CTK / Published 20 August 2007
Prague, Aug 18 (CTK) - Czech plastic surgeon Bohdan Pomahac from Olomouc, north Moravia, has become head of a U.S. team that will become the third one in the world to transplant faces, Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
Another such workplace is only in France. It transplanted the face of a woman whom a dog bit out a cheek, the lips and the nose.
“The third clinic is in China but the doctors have not released any detailed data on the operations, so it is difficult to say how successful they are,” Pohamac, 36, told the paper.
He will head the burns clinic of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. At the same time he heads a team that will perform face transplants there.
The hospital has long been one of the ten best facilities in the United States where patients from all over the world are treated. One storey with luxury equipment is reserved for rich patients.
Story from Prague Daily Monitor 20/08/07
