Word: brigham
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...surgical team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston recently received permission to perform partial face transplants on qualified disfigured patients, the Boston Globe reported late last month...
...Brigham and Women’s has overcome this obstacle by only permitting the operation to be performed on patients that are already on the immunosuppressant drugs...
John H. Barker, a surgeon at the University of Louisville, said he believes that the approach taken by Brigham and Women’s will be worth the risk to those that are able to receive the transplants...
Bohdan Pomahac, the associate director of Brigham and Women’s burn unit and the head of the hospital’s face transplant program, told the Globe that he has performed dozens of facial surgeries using skin grafted from elsewhere on the patient’s body, leaving the patient still looking disfigured...
...Mary’s Medical School graduate first moved to Boston to complete his residency at the Brigham and Women’s in 1978. Since then, Sachs has held various leadership positions at both Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...