"becoming independent in 1979 as the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis. In 2005, a local resident, Isabelle Dinoire, became the first person to have a partial face transplant. The Hindenburg Line ran through Valenciennes during World War I, leading to extensive destruction. Valenciennes was again almost completely destroyed during World War II, and has since been rebuilt in concrete. A few surviving monuments are: 1) The façade of the town hall, which managed to survive the bombardments of the war; 2) Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon, to which there is an annual pilgrimage; 3) La Maison Espagnole, the remains of the Spanish"
"was released in the ""New England Journal of Medicine"" and documents that the patient was happy with the results but also that the journey has been very difficult, especially with respect to her immune system's response. Dinoire died on April 22, 2016 at the age of 49 following a long illness. In April 2006, Dr Guo Shuzhong at the Xijing military hospital in Xi'an, China, similarly transplanted the cheek, upper lip, and nose of Li Guoxing, who was mauled by an Asiatic black bear while protecting his sheep. On 21 December 2008, it was reported that Li had died in"
"transplant. Telesurgery was developed by Jacques Marescaux and his team on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean (New-York-Strasbourg, Lindbergh Operation). A face transplant was first done on 27 November 2005 by Dr Bernard Devauchelle. France was the fourth country to achieve nuclear capability and has the third largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world. It is also a leader in civilian nuclear technology. France was the third nation, after the former USSR and the United States, to launch its own space satellite and remains the biggest contributor to the European Space Agency (ESA). The European Airbus, formed from the"
"(14th). In this same classification, the Victor Palmer Health Group, equipped with a solid ""mother-to-child hub"", gained a 5th place in the table for the gynaecological clinics and an 8th place for breast cancers. In 2005, the CHU of Amiens became of international renown thanks to Professor Bernard Devauchelle, a native of the city, where his team performed the first partial face transplant in the world. Thanks to the youth of its population, the dynamism and the success of its sports clubs, Amiens has been awarded the title of by the ""L'Equipe"" newspaper in 1999. She had already won the"
"and refine conclusions and recommendations regarding its use. Meniscus transplant A meniscus transplant or meniscal transplant is a transplant of the meniscus of the knee, which separates the thigh bone (femur) from the lower leg bone (tibia). The worn or damaged meniscus is removed and is replaced with a new one from a donor. The meniscus to be transplanted is taken from a cadaver, and, as such, is known as an allograft. Meniscal transplantation is technically difficult, as it must be sized accurately for each person, positioned properly and secured to the tibial plateau. As of 2012, only a few"
"van Wyk. Due to apartheid, the kidney donation to Van Wyk was controversial because he was black, while Denise was white. Washkansky would only live for another 18 days, succumbing to pneumonia. Denise Darvall Denise Ann Darvall (27 February 19423 December 1967) was the donor in the world's first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard. Darvall was seriously injured in a car accident on Main Road in Observatory, Cape Town. She and her family were visiting friends for afternoon tea and went shopping for cake. She"
"Meniscus transplant A meniscus transplant or meniscal transplant is a transplant of the meniscus of the knee, which separates the thigh bone (femur) from the lower leg bone (tibia). The worn or damaged meniscus is removed and is replaced with a new one from a donor. The meniscus to be transplanted is taken from a cadaver, and, as such, is known as an allograft. Meniscal transplantation is technically difficult, as it must be sized accurately for each person, positioned properly and secured to the tibial plateau. As of 2012, only a few surgeons have significant volume of experience in meniscus"
"a uterus transplant on August 9, 2011 to 21-year-old Derya Sert with an organ taken from a cadaver. She lacked womb from the birth. This is a first-ever operation in the world because former transplants were carried out by using organs from living donors. It is expected that the patient will be implanted in August 2012 with an embryo, which was previously fertilized and kept frozen, to give birth to a test-tube baby in May 2013. On September 25, 2010, two arms of 23-year-old Fatih Demirel, who died in a motorcycle accident in Milas, Muğla Province, were transplanted to Cihan"
"small and large intestine, a pancreas, a new stomach, a spleen and two kidneys. The operation was led by doctor Andreas Tzakis. Di Matteo remained in Florida until one month before her death, so that doctors could watch for complications. Complications did develop, and eventually caused her death in a Genoan hospital at the age of 18 months. Alessia di Matteo Alessia di Matteo (July 4, 2003 – January 12, 2005) was an Italian from Genoa. Di Matteo became the first person in history to survive the transplantion of eight organs in a single operation, although she died a year"
"Denise Darvall Denise Ann Darvall (27 February 19423 December 1967) was the donor in the world's first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard. Darvall was seriously injured in a car accident on Main Road in Observatory, Cape Town. She and her family were visiting friends for afternoon tea and went shopping for cake. She and her mother were run over by a driver who failed to see them, due to a large truck that obscured his vision of them, and their vision of his car. Her"
"Diane Hébert Diane Hébert (April 26, 1957 – June 29, 2008) was the first Quebecer to receive a heart-lung transplant (on November 26, 1985), needed after doctors discovered a pulmonary embolism. After her operation, she became an organ transplant advocate and founded a foundation to assist organ transplant recipients. At first, she was due to go to California, because at that time the Canadian hospitals were not able to perform such a complicated operation. Her story made the headlines and people gave money generously to help her afford the trip. However, after waiting for two years for a suitable donor,"
"most of his penis in an accident. The transplanted penis came from a brain-dead 22-year-old male. Although successful, the patient and his wife suffered psychological trauma as a result of the procedure, and had the surgery reversed fifteen days later. Following this, Jean-Michel Dubernard, famous for performing the world's first face transplant, wrote that the case ""raises many questions and has some critics"". He alluded to a double standard writing, ""I cannot imagine what would have been the reactions of the medical profession, ethics specialists, and the media if a European surgical team had performed the same operation."" Transplantation first"
"transplant. Stormie Jones Stormie Dawn Jones (May 30, 1977 – November 11, 1990) was the world's first recipient of a successful simultaneous heart and liver organ transplant. On February 14, 1984, under the direction of Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, Drs. Byers W. Shaw Jr. and Henry T. Bahnson replaced the six-year-old's heart and liver at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stormie had a condition which raised her blood cholesterol to 10 times normal levels. The condition, a severe form of familial hypercholesterolemia, and the resultant high levels of low density lipoprotein that damaged her organs, gave her"
"a French court ruled that the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees offered protection to FGM victims; the decision followed an asylum application from Aminata Diop, who fled an FGM procedure in Mali. The practice is outlawed by several provisions of France's penal code that address bodily harm causing permanent mutilation or torture. All children under six who were born in France undergo medical examinations that include inspection of the genitals, and doctors are obliged to report FGM. The first civil suit was in 1982, and the first criminal prosecution in 1993. In 1999 a woman was given an"
"an around-the-world solo motorcycle trip using his transplanted hands. University of Louisville doctors also performed a successful hand transplant on Michigan native Jerry Fisher in February 2001, and Michigan resident David Savage in 2006. On January 14, 2004, the team of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (Edouard-Herriot Hospital, France) declared a five-year-old double hand transplant a success. The lessons learned in this case, and in the 26 other hand transplants (6 double) which occurred between 2000 and 2005, gave encouragement to other transplant operations of such organs as the face, abdominal wall and larynx. On May 4, 2009 Jeff Kepner, a 57-year-old"
"Alessia di Matteo Alessia di Matteo (July 4, 2003 – January 12, 2005) was an Italian from Genoa. Di Matteo became the first person in history to survive the transplantion of eight organs in a single operation, although she died a year later of complications. She was operated on at the age of six months on January 31, 2004, in Miami. She was born with megacystis microcolon intestinal hypoperistalsis (MMIH) syndrome (also known as Berdon syndrome), a congenital smooth muscle disorder which affected her kidneys, intestines and stomach; she would have died earlier without treatment. She received a liver, a"
"sexual reassignment surgery. She also helped establish the Center for Aid, Research, and Information for Transsexuality and Gender Identity. In addition, her first marriage was the first union to be officially acknowledged by the government of France, establishing transgender persons' legal right to marry. Her 1987 autobiography ""Coccinelle"" was published by Daniel Filipacchi. Coccinelle was hospitalized in July 2006 following a stroke and died on 6 October at Marseille. ""Coccinelle No 1"" (President Records No 38."" cda 1052) ""Coccinelle No 2"" (President Records No 12"" cda 1052) Coccinelle - 4 chansons de la Revue de l'Olympia ""Chercher la femme"" (RCA"
"in 1998. The organs were taken from the same donor at Dokuz Eylül University's hospital in İzmir by Prof. Gökhan Tunçbilek, and were brought to Ankara on board an aircraft belonging to the Ministry of Health. Şevket Çavdar died on February 27, 2012 while he was being treated in the intensive care station, after his transplanted two arms and two legs were amputated the day before due to immune dysregulation. This case was accepted as first quadruple extremity transplantation in the world. Serdar Nasır is the winner of second prizes in national competitions of experimental and clinical specialty for plastic"
""") (2008-2013); member of the comity on nuclear energy of The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (French: ”Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives”) (2009-2015); member of the administrative counsel in 2009, then vice-president in 2010, and president since 2011 of the National Institute for Cancer (INCa) (French: “ Institut national du cancer”). She was appointed Minister of Solidarity and Health under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, as part of the first government of Édouard Philippe on May the 17 2017, then confirmed on June the 21 2017 as part of the second government of Édouard"
"Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for advances in organ transplantation. The youngest organ donor was a baby with anencephaly, born in 2015, who lived for only 100 minutes and donated his kidneys to an adult with renal failure. The oldest known organ donor was a 107-year-old Scottish woman, whose corneas were donated after her death in 2016. The oldest known organ donor for an internal organ was a 92-year-old Texas man, whose family chose to donate his liver after he died of a brain hemorrhage. The oldest altruistic living organ donor was an 85-year-old woman in Britain, who"
"world's first face transplant that included bone. The donor had been declared brain-dead before the operation. In May 2007 the Regulation on Human Organ Transplantation came into force, banning organ trading and the removal of a person's organs without their prior written consent, and this has been favourably received by the World Health Organization and The Transplantation Society. To curb illegal transplants, doctors involved in commercial trade of organs will face fines and suspensions; only a few hospitals will be certified to perform organ transplants. As a result of a systematic overhaul, the number of institutions approved for transplants has"
"was being performed widely across North America; Mühe was only recognised years later as the first to perform the surgery. The achievement has also been credited to two French surgeons: Phillipe Mouret, who first performed the surgery in 1987; and Francois Dubois, who did the same in 1988. In 1992, the German Society of Surgery—which had initially rejected Mühe's work—awarded him its top honour, the Anniversary Award. The following year, the president of the society's 1986 congress apologised to Mühe, describing his work as ""without a doubt one of the greatest original achievements of German medicine in recent history"". The"
"biopsy, and EndoDiag, relying on a simple blood test. In 2016, Réal was the speaker for a TEDx Talk on ""Endometriosis-The Mystery Disease of Women."" Cécile Réal Cécile Réal (; born 29 November 1973) is a French biomedical engineer and business executive. In 2012, as president of Endodiag, she won the Cartier Women's Initiative Award for developing tools to diagnose and treat endometriosis. Réal, who studied biomechanical engineering at the University of Technology of Compiègne (1991–1996) also has a master's degree in business and technology management from Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. In 1999, when she was only 25,"
"the latter half of the 20th century. Georges Burou Georges Burou (1910–1987) was a French gynecologist who managed a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco and is widely credited with innovating modern sex reassignment surgery for trans women. Notable patients include Coccinelle, April Ashley and Jan Morris. Surgeons, including the late Stanley Biber, have credited Burou's methods as the basis for their techniques. Burou was born on September 6, 1910 in Tarbes in the Hautes Pyrénées, France, while his parents were visiting the Burou family in the nearby village of Juillan. His parents worked as schoolteachers in Algiers, where Burou spent his"
"acquired a minority stake in the company. De Ribes was unhappy with requests to change the proportions and designs of her collections for Japanese markets. After being hospitalized for debilitating back pain, de Ribes underwent hemilaminectomy surgery in 1994 which left her unable to walk for three years. During this time she also began to suffer from celiac disease, and due to these health problems was forced to dissolve her company in 1995. On 14 July 2010, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy decorated her as a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur at the Elysée Palace. From November 19, 2015 to"
"France, a successful operation that prevented any serious consequences. In 2004, after a promotional trip to Australia (where ""Belonging"" had been published and greeted with much enthusiasm) and then to Canada, she again fell ill, with a pulmonary embolism complicated by pleurisy. In the spring of 2005, a meningioma (tumour on the brain) was detected by a routine scan, and removed with no complications. She has returned to good health. In addition to writing, she continues to teach at workshops and schools. She writes and publishes poetry, book reviews, and newspaper travel articles, and contributes to literary journals and anthologies."
"her through the process. The medical team involved in her GRS included plastic surgeons Auke de Boer and J. Joris Hage as well as gynecologists C. Jager and A. Drogendijk. In 1984, at age 18, Renard learned from the Amsterdam Gender Team that she was most likely the youngest person in the world to receive complete contemporary GRS. In October 1984, the Dutch Government granted Renard permission to have her gender corrected on her birth certificate. Renard is most likely the first post-operative trans woman in the world to be legally recognized as a female. In the early 1980s, Louis"
"from prison of a violent criminal serving a 25-year sentence for a robbery in which a police officer was killed. Interviewed on the French TV programme """" in 2016, Dalle said that, when she used to work in a morgue, she and friends sold body parts of corpses. She also said that, while on acid, she ate a dead man's ear. Béatrice Dalle Béatrice Dalle (born Béatrice Cabarrou) is a French actress. Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. Working as a model when"
"daughter's defiance on his wife, who he threw out of the house. In France, Diop initially stayed with a Malian couple she had known previously. She was later taken in by Renée Boutet de Monvel, a gynaecologist and anti-FGM campaigner. In October 1990, Diop applied to the French government for political asylum, under the terms of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. She is believed to have been the first woman in any country to cite genital mutilation as a reason for seeking asylum. Diop's first application was rejected, but her lawyer, Linda Weil-Curiel, appealed the decision. At"
"of Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, they were transferred to the Curie Institute in Paris. In Paris, they were treated by oncologist Georges Mathé. Five researchers were heavily radiated: Rosanda Dangubić, Života Vranić, Radojko Maksić, Draško Grujić and Stijepo Hajduković, while Živorad Bogojević received a low dose of radiation. Mathé operated on all five of them, performing the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant ever performed on unrelated human beings. The donors were all French: Marcel Pabion, Albert Biron, Raymond Castanier and Odette Draghi, a mother of four young children. The fifth donor was , member of Mathé's team. On 11"
"where he teaches. He also belonged to the National Council of Universities for the medical, dentistry and pharmaceutical disciplines. Iradj Gandjbaksh Iradj Gandjbaksh (1941 Kermanshah - ) is an Iranian Cardiac surgeon who lives in France. He fitted a pacemaker to French former president Jacques Chirac. Gandjbaksh is a surgeon at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where he heads the cardiac surgery department after Christian Cabrol. Gandjbaksh and Cabrol performed the first heart transplant in Europe on 27 April 1968. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since November 13, 2001. In 2010, he is president of the"
"the investigation of uterine transplantation in 1918. In 1964 and 1966, Eraslan, Hamernik and Hardy, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, were the first to perform an animal (dog) autotransplantation of the uterus and subsequently deliver a pregnancy from that uterus. In 2010 Diaz-Garcia and co-workers, at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gothenburg in Sweden, demonstrated the world's first successful allogenic uterus transplantation, in a rat, with healthy offspring. In 1931, in Germany, Lili Elbe, a Danish transgender woman, died from organ rejection three months after receiving one of the world's earliest uterine transplants."
"van der Merwe and plastic surgeon Frank Graewe. The immunosuppression was conducted by Rafique Moosa. The nine-hour procedure used microsurgery to connect blood vessels and nerves. The patient had lost his penis as a result of a botched circumcision procedure he underwent aged 18. As of 13 March 2015, the recipient was reported to have recovered function in the organ, including urination, erection, orgasm and ejaculation, but sensation is expected to take two years to return fully. The doctors who performed the transplant were surprised by this, as they had not expected the patient to recover fully until about December"