After surviving a suicide attempt a decade ago that left his face severely disfigured, a Michigan man has received a ...
Dr. Samir Mardini, who led the multidisciplinary team, estimated that about 85% of the man's new face was reconstructed and ...
March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, ...
In the last 20 years, just a little more than 50 face transplants have been performed worldwide, which makes Mr Pfaff's ...
A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff's life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...
The face of 30-year-old Derek Pfaff was left severely damaged by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2014, while he ...
Dr. Samir Mardini, a facial reconstructive and facial reanimation surgeon and surgical director of Mayo's reconstructive ...
Instead of striding into the operating theatre as a surgeon who had performed Tamil Nadu’s first liver transplant surgery in ...
Derek Pfaff has a new face a decade after attempting suicide by shooting himself in the face. He lost his nose, lips, teeth ...
Derek Pfaff tried to take his own life 10 years ago, but miraculously survived, although his face was left severely damaged.
NYU Langone performs the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant, marking a breakthrough in minimally invasive ...
India is creating a centralized platform to track cornea transplant waitlists. This initiative aims to address the shortage ...