The world’s first transplant was performed in France in 2005 on Isabelle Dinoive, a 38- year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.

Worldwide there had been five face transplants to date, three of them in France, two in United States and one in China, in which one person died after stopping anti-rejection drugs. But it was the first time a transplant of both hands and face has been completed in one go.

The patient a Frenchman in his thirties had reacted well to the anti-rejection treatment after his pioneering operation in April, which followed a 2004 accident in which he suffered severe burns.

Later on in June, the patient developed complications which required follow up surgery on 8th of June. These complications included facial infections and during operation to tackle with these infections the patients suffered from a heart a heart attack and he died.

According to the Surgeon, the cause of death was ‘Cardiac Arrest’, however the biopsies reports were all clear as they showed no rejection  nor was any vascular congestion—still the doctors are unable to explain the cardiac arrest as they are still waiting for the post mortem report.

Despite the great advancements made in transplant surgery in the past few years, medical experts say the exercise is still fraught with problems. Powerful drugs must be taken for life to stop immune systems rejecting the new tissue and the human body suffers a lot and some time it even causes death as it happen in this case.