The chimp was shot after attacking the police who responded to emergency calls.Ĭharla underwent hours of surgery at Stamford Hospital immediately afterward, and subsequent surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which had performed the nation’s first partial face transplant only months earlier. In the ensuing chimp attack, Nash was blinded and had her hands and much of her face torn away. The 14-year-old chimp, named Travis, had been raised by the owner and was familiar with Nash. That will be a great day for Charla and for all of us.”Ĭharla was a friend of the chimp’s owner who had been called to the owner’s Stamford, Conn., home to help get the rambunctious animal back into the house. I think her new face will allow Charla to be present when Brianna graduates from college in a few short years. “Last spring, Charla made the difficult decision not to attend her only daughter Brianna’s graduation because she feared her presence would take away from the day. “Charla will now be able to enjoy a more normal social life, and time with her friends and family,” Pomahac said. Because her disfigurement was so severe, she missed a major milestone. Pomahac grew emotional when he spoke of the attack’s social cost on the patient. Consequently, she is still on and off a ventilator, which requires her to be medicated and limits her responsiveness. Though Charla’s face transplant seems to be doing well and the pneumonia has cleared, Pomahac said the infection set her recovery back. She should be able to smile, control her lips, speak more clearly, breathe through her nose and smell, and eat solid foods again. He expects that within three to six months Charla will regain sensation and motor function. Pomahac said the transplanted facial tissue is doing well, and the nerves are starting to regrow. She also received a new hard palate and teeth.
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Charla received the muscles, nerves, and skin of the donor’s face, including the nose, lips, and eyelids. Last month’s transplant operation was the most complete one performed by the Brigham so far, combining the facets of each of the previous procedures, Pomahac said.
Because of them, we are confident Charla will gain her goal to regain her health and independence in the future.” “We thank these brilliant, skillful people for helping Charla in so many ways since the attack. “Charla has fought hard, first for her life and then to begin to recover both physically and emotionally,” Steve Nash said. He also thanked the donor family, whose members wish to remain anonymous, calling them “generous and kind beyond words.”
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The 20-hour procedure was the third full face transplant performed this year by a team led by Bohdan Pomahac, an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of the Brigham’s plastic surgery transplant program.ĭuring a sometimes-emotional news conference, Pomahac described the surgery, while Nash’s brother Steve thanked the surgical team and personnel at other hospitals who saved her life and stabilized her. Nash also received a double hand transplant, but the grafts failed after she developed pneumonia, which lowered her blood pressure and blood flow into the transplanted hands, doctors said Friday (June 10) during a news conference announcing the surgery. Surgeons at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have performed face transplant surgery on Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who suffered horrific injuries when she was mauled by a pet chimpanzee in 2009.
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