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In 1969, Conrad Moore of the Texas Medical Center claimed that he had carried out the transplantation of a whole eye, but he subsequently retracted his claim. [ 7 ] 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 ...
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.
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
Rodriguez said that restoring sight in James’ left eye through a whole eye transplant was a moon shot from the get-go but that performing the surgery provided other benefits, as well.
On 27 May 2023, Rodriguez performed the world’s first transplant of an entire eye, in a 21-hour-surgery which involved removing part of the face and the whole left eye of a donor and grafting them onto the recipient, 46-year-old Aaron James.
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.
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 ...
That provides a foundation and hope for the future of whole-eye transplants, according to the study. While "I don't suspect that he will gain sight," Rodriguez says, "it's an amazing step forward ...