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Surgeons perform world’s first eye transplant

- Associated Press -

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 if the man will ever see through his new left eye. An accident with high-voltage power lines had destroyed most of Aaron James' face

US surgeons perform world’s first whole eye transplant

- Agence France-Presse -

A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world's first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn't yet known whether the man will ever see through the donated eye. The groundbreaking surgery involved removing part of the face and