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Eduardo De Jesus Rodriguez MD, DDS (born October 13, 1966) is a Cuban American Oral & Maxillofacial surgeon, Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon, and reconstructive transplant surgeon, who is known for his contribution to the field of facial transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation.
During the 21-hour operation, which they rehearsed more than a dozen times, Rodriguez’s team injected stem cells harvested from the donor’s bone marrow into the donated eye’s optic nerve.
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An accident with high-voltage power lines had destroyed most of Aaron James’ face and one eye. The NYU team announced Thursday that so far, it's doing just that. Man receives the first eye ...
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A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the nasal structure, the nose, the lips, the muscles of facial movement used for expression, the nerves that provide sensation, and, potentially, the bones ...
In 2015, surgeons led by Eduardo D. Rodriguez, M.D., D.D.S., the Helen L. Kimmel Professor of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and chair of NYU Langone Health's Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, performed the most extensive face transplant to date, followed in 2020 by the world's first successful face and double hand transplant. [95]
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