You might remember our 2008 post about the “near-total face transplant” 
performed by surgeons and doctors at the Cleveland Clinic. It took 22 hours to restore a patient’s face. She had suffered severe facial trauma years before the operation.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, doctors and plastic surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are now seeking approval to perform a similar operation. UPMC surgeons apparently have experience performing hand transplants — procedures that require advanced techniques to reconnect tissues, veins and blood vessels. A face transplant however may require donation of organs that are very difficult to procure.
