The face of 30-year-old Derek Pfaff was left severely damaged by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2014, while he ...
A nearly 60-hour-long surgery that began in February and involved more than 80 health care professionals, Mayo Clinic ...
Derek Pfaff tried to take his own life 10 years ago, but miraculously survived, although his face was left severely damaged.
The Mayo Clinic says surgeons there successfully performed a face transplant for a Michigan man who was severely injured from ...
A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff's life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...
ROCHESTER — After receiving a face transplant at Mayo Clinic earlier this year, a Michigan man can now smile and breathe ...
A Michigan man left disfigured after a suicide attempt a decade ago now has a new face after a Mayo Clinic surgery that took ...
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A face transplant performed at the Mayo Clinic has enabled a Michigan man to blink, swallow, smile and ...
Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring ...
A Michigan man can blink, swallow, smile and breathe through his nose for the first time in a decade thanks to a face ...
March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, ...
Nearly a decade after he shot himself in a failed suicide attempt, Derek Pfaff underwent a 50-hour face transplant at Mayo ...