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Case Reports
. 2021 Mar 18;384(11):1075-1076.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2033961.

Face Transplantation in a Black Patient - Racial Considerations and Early Outcomes

Martin Kauke  1 , Adriana C Panayi  1 , Bianief Tchiloemba  1 , Yannick F Diehm  1 , Valentin Haug  1 , Branislav Kollar  1 , Bridget Perry  2 , Dhruv Singhal  3 , Indranil Sinha  1 , Leonardo V Riella  4 , Donald J Annino  5 , Bohdan Pomahac  5
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Face Transplantation in a Black Patient - Racial Considerations and Early Outcomes

Martin Kauke et al. N Engl J Med. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. The Patient before and after Face Transplantation.
Panel A shows the patient before and Panel B shows the patient 3 months after face transplantation. The donor was a 61-year-old Black man who met the criteria for brain death and had physical characteristics and skin tone that were similar to those of the recipient (cytomegalovirus IgG status, negative in the donor and positive in the recipient; Epstein–Barr virus status, positive in both the donor and recipient; four HLA mismatches at A1B2DR1; and negative pretransplantation T-cell and B-cell cross-matching).
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