But five months ago, doctors at NYU Langone Health gave James his confidence back by performing the world’s first eye and face transplant. “For the first time since the accident, I don't want ...

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.

2023 11:27 a.m. NEW YORK — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant — although it’s far too soon to know ...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – In May of 2023, an Arkansas lineman underwent the world’s first whole-eye and partial face transplant. Now, more than a year later, he’s dealing with a new normal and a ...

The groundbreaking surgery involved removing part of the face and the whole ... world." James, whose right eye remains intact, was considered an ideal candidate because his need for a facial ...

Experts have called the breakthrough an important moment in the quest to help millions of people around the world restore ... accomplished the first successful whole-eye transplant with a face ...

In July, Tarleton became the first person in the U.S. -— and the second in the world -— to receive a second face transplant ... She went blind in her right eye in 2009, and has been legally ...

Editor's Note: Connie Culp, the first face-transplant ... in the world. She was 41 when her husband shot her, in 2004. She lost her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth, and an eye.