The first transplant of the entire human eye was successfully completed in New York, United States. The operation performed during a partial face transplant a few months ago was successful, according to doctors. Its details were described in an article by Scientific America: The complex operation took 21 hours, required the intervention of 140 surgeons, and completely transformed the appearance of the patient, a former soldier who lost most of his face in a work accident. Eduardo Rodriguez, the doctor leading the team that performed the operation, expressed his great satisfaction with the results and said, “The fact that we have transplanted an eye is a huge step, it is something that has been thought about for centuries, but it has never been done before.”
The eye transplant was performed on veteran Aaron James, originally from Arkansas, who suffered a terrible accident in 2021. While working as an electrical maintenance worker in Oklahoma, the man accidentally touched a high-voltage cable. A devastating shock horribly disfigured Aaron’s face, causing extensive damage to his left eye, lips, nose and left limb. The transplanted eye is showing “extraordinary” signs of the condition, but Aaron James still can’t see, doctors say. James hopes that in time his vision will be restored and that his innovative surgery will help deliver medication: “It would be great if I could see,” he told CNN. I would like to thank the donor and the donor’s family. “Without them, none of this would have been possible.”
Aaron’s wife Meagan, who was always with him during his difficult process, told the US media about the dramatic day of the accident. When the woman went to pick up her daughter from school, she received a call from an unknown number: She answered and could only understand a few words: “Harun”, “accident”, “serious”. In the second phone call, the doctor explained what happened to her husband and that his condition was serious. When he asked if he would recover, the doctor replied: “I can promise you that he will not die before you arrive.” Then came a long recovery and complex surgery that gave Aaron a face and a second eye, but the road to a full recovery remains long.
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