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The couple eventually moved in together in DiMeo’s native New Jersey, and Perez sticks by his side through the ups and downs of life post-transplant – including a six-week hospitalization over ...
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Joe’s incredible recovery journey began after a 2018 car accident left him with severe burns covering 80% of his body, leading to a historic 23-hour transplant surgery Image credits: Joe DiMeo ...
The surgery took approximately 25 hours and involved the transfer of the donor’s facial skin below the eyes, the entire nose, both jaws, and teeth. On August 12, 2020, Rodriguez led a team of over 140 personnel in successfully transplanting the face and both hands of a brain-dead donor onto 22-year-old Joseph Dimeo. [15]
The Wallace rule of nines is a tool used in pre-hospital and emergency medicine to estimate the total body surface area (BSA) affected by a burn.In addition to determining burn severity, the measurement of burn surface area is important for estimating patients' fluid requirements and determining hospital admission criteria.
A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the nasal structure, the nose, the lips, the muscles of facial movement used for expression, the nerves that provide sensation, and, potentially, the bones ...
Almost six months after surgery, 22-year-old Joe DiMeo, from New Jersey, is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze again. Man recovering after rare face and hands transplant [Video ...
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