Jérôme Hamon, the first man in the world to have undergone two face transplants, in 2010 and 2018, died this week at the age of 49. Hamon suffered from neurofibromatosis type 1 (von Recklinghausen disease), a genetic disease which had distorted his face.
The first transplant was a success, as he recounted in a book published in April 2015, with his transplanted face, which showed signs of chronic rejection, in November of that year. But, the same year, during a common cold, he was treated with an antibiotic incompatible with his immunosuppressive treatment. In 2016 he started showing signs of chronic rejection, and his face deteriorated. In the summer of 2017, he was hospitalized, and in November, his transplanted face, with the same name, appeared.