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Details of Russia’s First Face Transplant Surgery Revealed

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A successful face transplant operation performed in Russia earlier this year necessitated serious changes to current Russian health legislation, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Thursday.

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“The operation demanded major amendments to our existing legislation, including a special Health Ministry directive,” Skvortsova told reporters during a news conference at the National Defense Center in Moscow.

The Russian military man, who underwent a partial face transplant operation at the Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, warmly thanked the surgeons and said he planned to continue his education.

“Thanks to the operation I am now able to walk out, meet people and feel comfortable,” said the former patient, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out in France in 2005. The first full face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010.

A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a cadaver.

The Russian Health Ministry is working to make face transplants legal and has issued a decree that will regulate human tissue and make it easier to transplant a face with vessels from a deceased person onto a living patient.

This will open new opportunities for face transplant surgery in Russia.

“We already have a legal groundwork all in place to perform more such operations in the future,” the Russian minister said.

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