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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]
Infantile glaucoma, which often produces the clinical sign of buphthalmos, can be caused when an abnormally narrow angle between the cornea and iris blocks the outflow of aqueous humor; [4] this causes increased intraocular pressure and eventual enlargement of the globe (eyeball).
Tissue transplantation is a surgical procedure involving the removal of tissue from a donor site or the creation of new tissue, followed by tissue transfer to the recipient site. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The aim of tissue transplantation is to repair or replace tissues that are missing, damaged, or diseased, thereby improving patients' survival ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
NYU Langone patient Aaron James underwent the first whole-eye and partial-face transplant following a near-death electrocution in 2021. Here, James is seen on Aug. 13, 2024. NYU Langone Health