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US accident victim gets first double hand and face transplant AFP 2/3/2021 AFP © - This undated image Courtesy of NYU Langone Health, shows Joe Dimeo recovering after the face and hands transplant A 22-year-old man from New Jersey who suffered horrific injuries in a car accident has become the world's first person to undergo a successful face and double hand transplant, his medical team announced Wednesday. Joe DiMeo sustained third-degree burns on over 80 percent of his body when he fell asleep while driving home from a night shift in July 2018, causing his car to flip o...

Medication instead of the usual triple drug cocktail. we have employed the same protocol successfully in our previous transplants and we also use it in our face transplant program at johns hopkins. brendan will also engage in intensive hand therapy which he already began a week after transplant. because the nerves regenerate at the maximum speed of one inch per month, the therapy will continue for a few years. first at johns hopkins. then at walter reed. the progress will be slow but the outcome will be rewarding. brendan tells me he is up to the challenge. his recovery reaches a milestone tod...