Sweden, Sept 21 (ANI): A Swedish woman's face has been saved by hundreds of leeches after a massive chunk was bitten off by her own pet dog.
The woman's face was bitten off from her upper lip all the way up to her eye by her mixed-breed dog.
She was rushed to the Skane University Hospital in Malmo, and alert relatives made sure to recover the loose chunk of flesh and keep it chilled until they arrived at the hospital.
"She arrived to the emergency room in Malmo in the middle of the night from another Skane hospital," the Local quoted specialist Jens Larsson, who admitted the woman back in August, as saying in a statement.
The injured woman was rushed to surgery while Larsson made a call to specialist Stina Klasson.
"The most important thing was to get blood into the torn off body part, which we managed to do within an hour of the start of the operation," Klasson said.
The dog had removed the woman's upper lip, her nose, as well as parts of her cheek, requiring Klasson and Larsson to keep the woman in surgery for the next 15 hours in a desperate and complicated attempt to save her face.
The doctors also employed the services of hundreds of leeches to help assist in the procedure.
"The grower who supplies the hospital with leeches ran out. More leeches had to be flown in from the UK," said Klasson.
A total of 358 leeches were used in the operation, which, with their incessant sucking and blood thinning fluids, helped kick-start circulation in the woman's face.
Doctors at the hospital consider the procedure a success, although the woman will likely need continued reconstructive operations in the future. (ANI)
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