Austria has had the world's first tongue transplant

In a hospital in Vienna, introduced the world's first successful transplantation of human language. Operation was 42-year-old man and took 14 hours, the doctors said. The patient, whose name has not been named, was suffering from a malignant tumor in the oral cavity. A group of doctors from out of Christian and Franz Kermera Vottsingera tumor and transplanted to a new language. According to doctors, the patient is good after the operation. Earlier transplantation was only the language of the animals. The essential problem was that ever in my mouth get foreign substances that may cause an infection. However, the mouth is mastering the task, self-cleaning. Doctors often patients back or abdomen in an attempt to restore amputated language transplanted, but in her words, this method is far from ideal. According to Dr. Peter Rouia the ethics committee of the British Union of transplantation, the main task - to move the language after the transplant. In order to avoid rejection, the patient must take a number of drugs that suppress the immune system, according to the doctor. Must weigh the risk of such an event, since the suppression of the immune system making the body susceptible to various infections and in the long run lead to a new cervical cancer, the expert said.