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Doctors say his transplant gives them "hope for the future of whole-eye transplants with an aim to restore sight" because a test shows the eye's light-sensitive nerve cells survived the transplant.
In November 2023, surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced the first successful eye transplantation, [8] which was carried out as part of a partial face transplant in an operation that took 21 hours. [8] The recipient, Aaron James, had lost the left side of his face with his eye, nose and mouth in a high-voltage power line accident. [8]
Surgeons at NYU performed what's believed to be the world's first whole-eye transplant. ... In May, a team of more than 140 health care workers performed the 21-hour procedure on Aaron James, a 46 ...
In addition to the eye transplant, James also received a partial face transplant, which remains an incredibly rare procedure, with fewer than 50 face transplants having been performed worldwide ...
Corneal transplantation (3 P) D. Diagnostic ophthalmology (2 C, 67 P) E. Eye surgery (3 C, 53 P) Pages in category "Eye procedures" ... Video-oculography;
Films about organ transplantation, a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location.
A key step in the whole-eye transplant surgery was reconnecting Aaron’s optic nerve to the donor eye, said Dr. José-Alain Sahel, clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP), also known as "tooth in eye" surgery, [1] is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or a donor.