Landmark whole-eye transplant ‘a success’ despite patient’s lack of vision
Surgeons say the radical operation marks a step forward.
US surgeons who performed the world’s first combined whole eye and partial face transplant have pronounced it a success a year on, despite the patient not regaining his vision.
The 46-year-old recipient, a linesman from Arkansas who had sustained a high-voltage electrical injury with “catastrophic” tissue loss, had his face rebuilt by a team at New York University Langone Health.
