Reconstructive surgeons at a Cleveland hospital have successfully performed the first partial face transplant in the U.S.

The Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday announced the feat achieved two weeks ago by Dr. Maria Siemionow and her team of surgeons, who replaced 80 percent of an unidentified woman's disfigured face with the face of a dead donor.

The hospital will provide details of the surgery in a press conference on Wednesday.

So far, the face transplant on the U.S. woman was the third of its kind in the world. The first such operation was done in France in 2005 to replace a woman's face disfigured from a dog attack. The two other facial transplants were done on a Chinese farmer, whose face was disfigured from a bear attack, and a European man with a genetic disorder.