[...] psychiatrist Christine Kim handed a mirror to Maki as he sat in his bed in the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital. On April 9, Maki received a new face from a Brook line donor, Joseph Helfgot, who had died after a heart transplant. Since the 17-hour surgery, Maki has had two minor instances of rejection of the new face, which were not unexpected and which were successfully treated with steroids, Pomahac said.