Paul Moss
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And this week, the staff there have marked another world first in the way a face transplant was conducted.
The recipient was identified only by her first name, Kame.
She'd suffered facial tissue necrosis, which affected her ability to speak, eat and to see.
The donor was a woman who'd been terminally ill and who opted for assisted dying.
And that made the operation easier to perform, as Dr. Juan Perry Barrett explained to my colleague, Julian Warreca.
We then obviously start to talk about the recipient.
What was the actual medical procedure that you then had to carry out and the enormity of it and the scale of it?
What went on?
Tell us about the recipient now.
How is she doing?
Where does this take the potential for these kinds of procedures in the future?
I have a figure in front of me here.
Fifty four facial transplants have been performed worldwide, six in Spain, three by your team.
Where does this go?
How much more widely could this apply in the near future, do you think?
Dr Juan PΓ©rez Barrett from Barcelona's Val d'Hebron Hospital.
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