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Frenchman of the "three faces" has died. Jérôme Hamon was "an incredible fighter"
He was the first man to undergo two face transplants. He died last week, aged 49.
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Jérôme Hamon, the first man to undergo two face transplants, who became known worldwide for having "three faces", died on April 16, at the age of 49, six years after the last operation.
The news was given by the French doctor and close friend of the family, Franck Zal, to the newspaper Le Télégramme.
Jérôme was hospitalized and "exhausted", revealed Franck Zal, recalling all the "strength" that his friend and patient always showed throughout his life of suffering.
The Frenchman suffered from a rare genetic disease called neurofibromatosis type 1 or von Recklinghausen's disease, which deformed his face. In 2010, he underwent the first transplant and everything went well until, in 2015, after a flu, he was treated with an antibiotic incompatible with the immunosuppressants that transplant recipients have to take for life and began to show signs of rejection, again becoming deformed in the face.
A year later, the doctors decided to subject him to a new transplant, since his face showed signs of necrosis.
Before undergoing the second operation, which ended up happening in 2018, Jérôme spent two months "faceless" in the Intensive Care Unit of Georges Pompidou Hospital, in Paris, where the two transplants were performed.
At the time, the donor who saved him was a 22-year-old who died in France, hundreds of kilometers from Paris.
"His dream was to go back to work. He loved books, but he was tired. He was never able to go back to work [after the 2018 transplant]", Franck Zal also told Le Télégramme, recalling that Jérôme was "an incredible fighter" until the end.
Read Also: Spain achieves the highest number of transplants performed in a single day (Portuguese version)
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