Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life - Pushing The Boundaries

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Categorie: Variete

At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, around 700 operations are carried out every week, across 42 specialist theatres. Most patients have conditions that are familiar to experienced surgeons, but occasionally the teams must tackle much rarer and more challenging cases. Consultant maxillofacial surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmar are planning a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. As far as they can tell from medical records, they will be the first UK surgeons to operate on the strange disease Loretta is suffering from. Nine months earlier, Loretta appeared in Tim's clinic with a mysterious condition that was destroying the bones and muscles in one side of her face, causing her mouth to fuse shut.