PEOPLE who received organ transplants have been reporting strange changes to their personality – and it could be because they ...
Organ transplant recipients may inherit memories and personality traits from their donors, a groundbreaking new study has ...
Derek Pfaff tried to take his own life 10 years ago, but miraculously survived, although his face was left severely damaged.
A New Jersey man who received a face transplant after being severely burned in a car wreck shared his engagement photos this week to an overwhelming outpouring of support. Joe DiMeo, 26 ...
The world's first face transplant recipient suffered her injuries after trying to commit suicide, her family claimed last night. Isabelle Dinoir, 38, was disfigured when her dog tried to wake her ...
A nearly 60-hour-long surgery that began in February and involved more than 80 health care professionals, Mayo Clinic ...
After 58 surgeries that kept him alive but disfigured, Pfaff underwent a transplant at Mayo Clinic in February that replaced 85% of his face with donor bone, tissue and skin. He wasn’t allowed ...
“So every face transplant that’s happening currently ... which happens when a transplant recipient’s immune system attacks the donor’s organ or tissue. He will continue to take these ...
For some organ transplant recipients, these unexplained changes feel like echoes of the lives their donors once led.
BC Transplant said Monday that the province has successfully completed 11,000 organ transplants. The organization announced ...
It took more than 50 hours of surgery and two years of preparation, including 35 practice sessions, by the medical team.