To show the feasibility of face transplantation in patients
Most facial defects can be reconstructed with autologous tissues using standard plastic surgical techniques. However, when the circular facial muscles (eg. orbicularis oculi and orbicularis oris) are destroyed by burns, ballistic traumas, tumors, or congenital deformities there are no conventional surgical solutions. The study was designed following the advice of the French National Ethics Advisory Committee for life sciences and health (CCNE). The objectives are to study the feasibility and efficacy of face CTA transplantation, functional results, and influence on quality-of-life, as well as the management of immunosuppression.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
7
Feasibility ot face transplantation
Hopital européen Geroges Pompidou
Paris, France
Reconstruction tissular at carrier patients of a loss of substance of the median third(third party) of the face having taken the totality of lips with or without the nasal pyramid; or of a loss of substance taking the totality of 4 eyelids.
Time frame: during the study
To evaluate the potential benefit of such a transplantation in term of quality of life
Time frame: during the study
To measure the impact of this improvement
Time frame: during the study
To measure the impact of a immunosuppressive treatment for a pathology which is not vital
Time frame: during the study
To evaluate Acute Graft rejection using skin and mucosa biopsies: function of the lips and or eyelids mobility and function of the orbicularis muscles Quality of life the psychiatric and psychological evaluations
Time frame: at in the following days weeks and month after surgery
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