Surgeons use skin from patient's stomach in life-changing face transplant
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Surgeons performed a life-changing full facial skin transplant on a man who was too ashamed of his facial burns to live life outside of his home. The Tadzhikistan man, identified as 20-year-old Dilmrod, suffered the burns as a baby, Central European News (CEN) reported.
He appeared on a Russian reality TV show while visiting Krasnodar Krai and chose a surgeon in the region who offered his services. A team of surgeons used a large piece of skin from his stomach to cover his entire face during a 13-hour procedure.
“We could have done a typical procedure whereby every scar was covered with a piece of skin, but we opted for a difficult, ‘out-of-the-box’ decision,” Sergey Bogdanov, head of the unidentified hospital’s burn center, told CEN.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dilmrod is expected to see significant improvements to his quality of life, with minimal risk of complications. According to the report, Dilmrod is preparing to return to Tadzhikistan, find a job and get married.