PABLO RÁEZ CON 19 AÑOS Y UNA LEUCEMIA, EL PROTAGONISTA DE UN SPOT MUY ESPECIAL

“Cuando te enteras de que tu hijo con sólo 18 años, tiene que enfrentarse a una leucemia completamente solo, es demoledor”. Con estas palabras del padre de Pablo Ráez, comienza el spot creado para promocionar los Juegos Mundiales de Trasplantados que se celebrarán en España (Málaga), en 2017. Una historia real que ha traspasado el corazón de todo el que la ve y de todo el que conoce a Pablo. Este malagueño amante del deporte, con tan sólo 19 años en la actualidad, con más de 2000 amigos en Facebook y que está revolucionando las redes sociales, se está convirtiendo en una inspiración para todos los que pasan por malos momentos, para todos los que quieren aprender a lidiar con el dolor. Porque Pablo nos enseña una forma preciosa de mirar la vida y los acontecimientos, exprimiendo cada circunstancia de nuestro día a día, para sacar lo mejor que traen, porque el sufrimiento siempre viene acompañado de bendición, y Pablo nos muestra cómo encontrarlo. Spot Juegos Mundiales Trasplantados 2017:

University of Maryland completes most extensive full face transplant to date

The University of Maryland released details today of the most extensive full face transplant completed to date, including both jaws, teeth, and tongue. The 36-hour operation occurred on March 19-20, 2012 at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center and involved a multi-disciplinary team of faculty physicians from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a team of over 150 nurses and professional staff. The face transplant, formally called a vascularized composite allograft (VCA), was part of a 72-hour marathon of transplant activity at one of the busiest transplant centers in the world. The family of one anonymous donor generously donated his face and also saved five other lives through the heroic gift of organ donation. Four of these transplants took place over the course of two days at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
The face transplant team was led by Eduardo D. Rodriguez, M.D., D.D.S., associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and chief of plastic, reconstructive and maxillofacial surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Rodriguez is board-certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as in oral and maxillofacial surgery. This marks the first time in the world that a full face transplant was performed by a team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons with specialized training and expertise in craniofacial surgery and reconstructive microsurgery.
"We utilized innovative surgical practices and computerized techniques to precisely transplant the mid-face, maxilla and mandible including teeth, and a portion of the tongue. In addition, the transplant included all facial soft tissue from the scalp to the neck, including the underlying muscles to enable facial expression, and sensory and motor nerves to restore feeling and function," explains Dr. Rodriquez. "Our goal is to restore function as well as have aesthetically pleasing results."
The face transplant recipient, 37-year-old Richard Lee Norris of Hillsville, Virginia, was injured in 1997 in a gun accident. Since that time, he has undergone multiple life-saving and reconstructive surgeries. Due to the accident, Mr. Norris lost his lips and nose and had limited movement of his mouth. Mr. Norris first came to the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2005 to discuss reconstructive options with Dr. Rodriguez.
Grant funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the Department of Defense to Dr. Stephen Bartlett has supported the University of Maryland basic and clinical research program in vascularized composite transplantation leading up to and supporting this groundbreaking face transplant. The ONR funds medical research to support military operational medicine and clinical care of returning veterans. In addition to conducting research, the University of Maryland supports military medicine in a variety of ways, including training military medical staff prior to deployment and performing organ transplant surgeries for patients at Walter Reed/Bethesda National Naval Medical Center.
"The future of medicine depends on rapid translation of research and creating high-performing teams. The face transplant is a perfect example of the life-changing options we can provide for our patients when we combine the expertise of our research and clinical teams to pursue procedures that would have seemed unfathomable not so long ago," says E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president of medical affairs at the University of Maryland and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The team of face transplant surgeons benefited greatly from their experience treating high-velocity ballistic facial injuries at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The team also includes research scientists and physician scientists from the University of Maryland's nationally recognized Division of Transplantation who have been researching ways to reduce rejection of donated organs and minimize the side effects of long-term immunosuppressive use after transplantation.
"A project like the face transplant requires multi-disciplinary collaboration between numerous clinical services and in many ways is very similar to trauma care," says Thomas M. Scalea, M.D., Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery, director, Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and physician-in-chief, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. "Because we have an infrastructure built around multi-disciplinary care, it made sense for the facial transplant program to be housed at the Shock Trauma Center in the University of Maryland Medical Center."

**Source: University of Maryland Medical Center