{"id":77893,"date":"2018-04-17T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/mans-second-face-transplant-is-a-world-first"},"modified":"2018-04-17T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:02:54","slug":"mans-second-face-transplant-is-a-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/mans-second-face-transplant-is-a-world-first","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s second face transplant is a world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mans-second-face-transplant-is-a-world-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man in Paris has become the world\u2019s first to successfully receive two facial transplants.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Hamon, 43, underwent his first face transplantation procedure in 2010 to treat <a href=\"https:\/\/ghr.nlm.nih.gov\/condition\/neurofibromatosis-type-1\" target=\"_blank\">neurofibromatosis<\/a>, a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of tumors along nerves in the skin, brain and other parts of the body. Yet Hamon\u2019s body rejected the original transplant.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a team of surgeons and paramedics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphp.fr\/contenu\/premiere-mondiale-lap-hp-retour-sur-la-deuxieme-greffe-de-visage-realisee-sur-un-patient\" target=\"_blank\">Georges Pompidou European Hospital AP-HP<\/a>, led by surgeon Dr. Laurent Lantieri, performed Hamon\u2019s second transplant.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/17\/health\/second-face-transplant-bn\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/17\/health\/second-face-transplant-bn\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Paris has become the world\u2019s first to successfully receive two facial transplants. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Hamon, 43, underwent his first face transplantation procedure in 2010 to treat neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of tumors along nerves in the skin, brain and other parts of the body. Yet Hamon\u2019s body rejected the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}