Over the next several months, she will develop more control over facial muscles and more feeling, letting her breathe through her nose and develop her sense of smell. It was the third full face transplant in the U.S. More than two years later, Nash received skin, underlying muscles, blood vessels, nerves, a hard palate and teeth from a dead person whose identity was not released. She could talk but was barely understandable. The animal ripped off Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids before being shot and killed by police.Īfter the mauling, Nash's eyes were gone and she had only a small opening instead of a mouth to take in pureed food. In February 2009, she was attacked by a neighbor's 200-pound pet chimpanzee, named Travis, which went berserk after its owner asked Nash to help lure it back into her Stamford, Conn., house. "It will certainly help her tremendously to feel human again," Pohamac said. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Kathleen O'Rourke, File) MANDATORY CREDIT AP Show More Show Less Officials at Brigham and Women's Hospital say they performed the transplant on Nash late last month. Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed a full face transplant on Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was mauled two years ago by Travis, who was shot and killed by police. 20, 2003 file photo, shows Travis, a 10-year-old chimpanzee, sitting in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandy and Jerome Herold in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Brigham and Women's Hospital) AP Show More Show Less 5 of6 FILE - This Oct. A Boston surgeon who helped perform a face and double-hand transplant on Nash in 2011, more than two years after the 2009 attack says even though the hand transplants failed, the woman could undergo another hand transplant in the future. 3 of6 4 of6 EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT In this 2009 photo provided by Brigham and Women's Hospital, Charla Nash, of Stamford, Conn., is seen after being mauled by a Chimpanzee.
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