Surgeons successfully perform the world's first transplant of a whole human eye

Aaron James destroyed much of his face in an accident with high-voltage power lines but is now recovering well from a face and eye transplant.

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00:00 [Music]

00:12 I feel good.

00:13 So, I still don't have any movement in it yet.

00:19 My eyelids, I can't go in yet, but I'm getting sensations now back over into my nose and stuff.

00:29 So, it's starting to come through.

00:32 So, hopefully it won't be long.

00:35 I would say that I'm far more optimistic today than on the day that we did the transplant.

00:42 And why?

00:43 The globe is alive.

00:45 It has vascularity.

00:47 I thought there was not going to be any messaging.

00:50 The retina is viable.

00:52 [Music]

01:04 This is just the beginning.

01:06 We're in uncharted waters and we're trying to discover.

01:11 I know we're going to get a lot of people.

01:13 We're not claiming that we are going to restore sight.

01:18 We're just getting one step closer.

01:20 [Music]