A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York had performed the world’s first successful whole ... of doing not just a partial face transplant but a whole-eye transplant, he warned that ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) --A patient who underwent the world's first whole-eye and partial-face transplant has healed astonishingly well more than a year after the 21-hour surgery, a new report says.

The military veteran and Arkansas resident lost much of the left side of his face—including ... This exciting first case helps to lay the groundwork to push whole-eye transplant into a vision ...

In May 2023, he received the world’s first whole-eye and face transplant in an operation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health in New York City. More than a year after the surgery ...

Surgeons who performed the world’s first whole eye transplant on an army veteran ... lost his left eye and most of his face after an electrical cable touched the left side three years ago.

SURGEONS have performed the world's first successful whole eye transplant on an army veteran. Aaron James, now 47, from Arkansas in the US, lost his left eye and most of his face after an ...

In May of 2023, Aaron James, an electrical lineman, had the first partial face ... eye’s lid remains closed. He will be on immunosuppression drugs for the rest of his life. Whole eye transplant ...

Among them are Aaron James, who received the world’s first whole-eye and partial face transplant, and Katie Stubblefield, who was the youngest person to receive a face transplant in the United ...