NEWS: French Woman Has Worlds First Face Transplant

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It has been technically possible to carry out such a transplant for some years, with teams in the US, the UK and France researching the procedure.

Skin from another person's face is better for transplants as it will be a better match than skin from another part of the patient's body, which could have a different texture or colour.

The 38-year-old French patient from the northern French town of Valenciennes underwent extensive counselling before her operation, which is believed to have lasted at least five hours, and which took place at the weekend at a hospital in Amiens.

The French magazine Le Point reports that the tissues, muscles, arteries and veins needed for the transplant were taken from a multi-organ donor in the northern city of Lille, who was brain-dead.




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The Frenchwoman who had the first face transplant has signed a deal possibly worth $176,000 for photographs and a film of the operation.

As the argument grew over the ethics of the transplant escalated, it was announced that Isabelle Dinoire, 38, had agreed to let the British documentary film-maker Michael Hughes film the graft at Amiens University Hospital in northern France.

The deal was signed in August, three months before the operation and before a donor had been found, the Times of London said. The revelation has fuelled concern in France over the transplant and its ethics.

Dinoire told Le Parisien newspaper that she felt very well, but that she had been upset by the media coverage.

Under the deal, Dinoire will keep the profits from the sale of the photographs and the film after deducting Hughes' costs and the fees of distributor.


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