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01-18-2006, 08:52 PM
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912182/" target="_blank">The world's first recipient of a face transplant resumes her smoking habit.</a></p><p>The world's first face transplant recipient is
using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could
interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">"It
is a problem," Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who led the team that
performed the pioneering transplant in France on Nov. 27, acknowledged
on Wednesday.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">...</p><p class="textBodyBlack">The woman suffered a tissue-rejection episode last month but is now
doing well, her doctors said. However, they said she has resumed
smoking, which besides being bad in general for health is especially a
problem after surgery because it impairs circulation to tissues and
could raise the risk of rejection.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"> </p><p> </p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912182/" target="_blank"></a>
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using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could
interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">"It
is a problem," Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who led the team that
performed the pioneering transplant in France on Nov. 27, acknowledged
on Wednesday.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">...</p><p class="textBodyBlack">The woman suffered a tissue-rejection episode last month but is now
doing well, her doctors said. However, they said she has resumed
smoking, which besides being bad in general for health is especially a
problem after surgery because it impairs circulation to tissues and
could raise the risk of rejection.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"> </p><p> </p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912182/" target="_blank"></a>
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