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Turkish doctors to perform country's fifth face transplant

Türkiye Materials 18 July 2013 17:01 (UTC +04:00)
Turkish doctors to perform country's fifth face transplant
Turkish doctors to perform country's fifth face transplant

Doctors from Antalya's Akdeniz University Hospital are preparing to perform Turkey's fifth full-face transplant on a 27-year-old patient Today`s Zaman reported

In the fifth such operation in the country, the face of 42-year-old Polish tourist Andrzej Kucza, who had been pronounced dead at a hospital in the western province of Muğla, will be transplanted onto Recep Sert, who suffered facial disfigurement after a gun-related accident.

Reports said on Thursday that Kucza's face was successfully removed at a Muğla hospital in an operation overseen by Dr. Omer Ozkan, a professor from the plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery department of Akdeniz University's School of Medicine. Ozkan and his team then traveled to Antalya by plane to transplant Kucza's face onto Sert.

The Akdeniz University Hospital is known for having carried out Turkey's first full-face transplant in January. Uğur Acar, who suffered serious burns to his face during a house fire that occurred when he was just 40 days old, underwent a successful face-transplant operation at the hospital. The transplant was made possible after the family of Ahmet Kaya, who had been declared brain dead, donated all of his organs.

The latest such operation took place in May, when the same hospital successfully performed a full-face transplant on 34-year-old Turan Colak.

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