Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science and was previously a news editor and staff writer at the site. She holds a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz and degrees in neuroscience and dance from the University of Florida.
For the first time, a patient received a whole new eye and a partial face in a groundbreaking transplant procedure.
Now, James is about five months out from his transplant procedure, which involved 140 medical providers at NYU Langone and took place over 21 hours on May 27 and May 28, 2023. The NYU team first learned of James two months after the accident, when they started consulting his care team at a medical center in Texas. James' left eye needed removal due to severe pain, so the NYU team advised the surgeons to snip his optic nerve as close to the eyeball as possible, to potentially allow for a whole-eye transplant, along with his planned face transplant.
"His retina is able to tell us that it's 'seeing' the light, which is quite remarkable," Dedania said. Scans suggest that this signal makes it to the visual cortex at the back of James' brain. However, James can't yet perceive those incoming signals, so it's still unknown if he'll ever have vision in that eye, Dedania said.
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