The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being attacked by a chimpanzee is back in a Boston hospital after doctors discovered her body is rejecting the transplant.
Charla Nash had been taking part in an experiment in which doctors at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital had tried to wean her off the anti-rejection drugs she had been taking since the 2011 operation.

Her doctors now hope to reverse the rejection by ending the experiment, Nash’s publicist, Shelly Sindland, said.
Nash is doing well and the viability of her face transplant "is not in jeopardy," said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of plastic surgery transplantation at BWH. "She has resumed her original medication, and will most likely leave the hospital in the next day or two. We expect this rejection episode to be resolved within the coming week.
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Anti-rejection drugs can have serious side effects, and the military funded the experiment in the hopes the alternative treatment could help those needing transplants after returning from war.
"I appreciate everyone’s concern, " Charla Nash said in a statement. "I feel perfect. I didn’t even know I was having a rejection episode."
"While I am disappointed that I cannot continue in the research project, I am proud of my contributions to date, and am hopeful that it will help those wounded serving our country, and others needing transplants in the future."
Nash recently discovered several unusual patches on her face, Sindland said. Doctors on Monday did a biopsy and determined her body was rejecting the transplant, she said.
If the attempt to reverse the rejection is unsuccessful, it isn’t immediately clear what the next step would be, Sindland said.

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