Doctors ‘truly amazed’ by man’s recovery after world-first whole-eye transplant

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By Nilima Marshall, PA Media

Surgeons who performed the world’s first whole eye transplant on an army veteran said they have been “truly amazed” by his remarkable recovery.

Aaron James, 47, from Arkansas in the US, lost his left eye and most of his face after an electrical cable touched the left side 3 years ago.