Connie Culp

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Connie Culp (March 26, 1963 - July 29, 2020 in Cleveland , Ohio ) was the first person in the United States and the fourth worldwide to have a face transplant. It was made in December 2008.

Facial disfigurement

Connie Culp was shot in the face by her husband Thomas Culp in a failed extended suicide in Ohio in September 2004 . He survived and was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2005 for attempted murder.

Face transplant

The shotgun shot destroyed Culp's nose, cheeks, upper mouth, and one eye. Even before the face transplant on December 10, 2008, she had to undergo 30 operations. The surgeon Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors in the 22-hour operation, in which 80 percent of the face was replaced by that of a woman who had recently died. Her nose was also rebuilt. The right eye was blind and the left eye was badly damaged.

After the operations, she was able to speak, smile, and eat normally again. She campaigned for victims of burns and disfigurements.

death

Connie Culp died from an infection unrelated to the transplants, according to a hospital spokesman.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bryan Pietsch: Connie Culp, First Face Transplant Recipient in US, Dies at 57. In: The New York Times , August 1, 2020 (English). Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c America's First Face Transplant . In: Oprah.com . ( oprah.com [accessed August 1, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Culp, Connie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American face transplant recipients
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1963
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2020
Place of death Cleveland , Ohio