For the first time transplanted bone of the skull and scalp – National Geographic Russia

In the last year in the Netherlands held a transplant human skull fragment, created the 3D-printer. The recent operation in the United States was the first to use human material. Will last 15 hours, it required the work of 10 doctors and 40 nurses.

The historical transplantation for the event took place in the name of the Anderson Cancer Center at the Methodist Hospital in Houston. The case is a 55-year-old Jim Boysen. In five years, he struggles with diabetes, and decades later receiving numerous medications made itself felt. In 1992, he was transplanted kidney and pancreas, which required further receiving immunosuppressants. This, in turn, increase the risk of cancer, and then did not allow the wound to heal, the resultant color after radiation therapy.

At the same time, Boysenu needed a new transplant of internal organs, but doctors were unable to carry out this operation in the presence of an open wound on his head. Once able to find a donor material (it took 18 months), the problem was solved. Part of a human skull and the skin with implanted hair perfectly accustomed. Boysen now feels fine and, according to him, has even more hair than in his youth.

It should be noted the great successes achieved in transplantation over the past decade. In 1954 the world’s first kidney transplant; in 1966 – the pancreas, the next year – the liver and heart, in 1998 – the hand. The first such operation on his head – face transplant – was held in 2005 in France. Learn about when the world’s first transplanted a penis.