Clinic Approved for Facial Transplants
The Cleveland Clinic said it is the first institution to receive review board approval of human facial transplants for people disfigured by burns or disease.
Several independent medical teams around the world also are pursuing the procedure. The Cleveland Clinic said its approval on Oct. 15 followed 10 months of debate. It has no current patients or donors for the procedure.
“We are at this point ready to begin screening patients,” said Dr. Maria Siemionow, director of plastic surgery research, who advocated the procedure to the clinic’s review board.
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