Boston hospital conducts 2nd full-face transplant

BOSTON (APOnline)-doctors in a Hospital Boston have performed the nation second full-face transplant, less than a month after the first.A team of more than 30 doctors, nurses and other employees of Brigham and women's Hospital worked for more than 14 hours last week to replace the full face area of 30-year-old Mitch Hunter, of Speedway, Ind. The procedure replaced Hunter's nose, eyelids, lips, face animation muscles and the nerves that power them and sensation. Hunter his injuries of a high-voltage electric wire a 2001 car accident.The donor family requested anonymity.The lead surgeon, Dr Bohdan Pomahac, said the procedure easy and they expect Hunter a successful recovery and new life.A construction worker Texas received a new face in the hospital last month. About a dozen face transplants are worldwide, done in the USA, France, Spain and China. The's world's first face transplant, a partial face transplant, was done in France in 2005 on a woman by her dog mauled. The nation first, even a partial, was at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The Hospital Boston has placed on a waiting list for a face and hands transplantation Charla Nash, the wife of the Connecticut chimpanzee mauled by a friend two years ago.