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Connie Culp (1963 – 2020), first U.S. recipient of a partial face transplant
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legacy.comConnie Culp was the first U.S. recipient of a partial face transplant, who lived longer than any other face transplant recipient to date.Culp’s face was badly damaged in 2004, when her then-husband shot her in an attempted murder-suicide.
The shooting destroyed her nose, cheeks, roof of her mouth, and one eye. It left her nearly blind, as well as unable to breathe and in need of a surgical breathing opening in her throat.
Culp underwent 30 surgeries before her historic near-total face transplant surgery in 2008 at the Cleveland Clinic. The operation took 22 hours and involved doctors rebuilding her nose and replacing tissue, muscle, bone, and more with the donations of an organ donor who had recently died.
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