STATE & NATIONAL: Today, the state of New York medical community has enbarked upon a first ever eye transplant. The James family was shaken when theiir patriarch, Aaron James was shocked by a high voltage live wire while working as a electrician. James lost an arm and portions of his face. By Anne M. Erbynstein
During an interview conducted with Aaron James months after his tragic accident, the () year old lineman stated that he went to work one day in New York and woke up 6 weeks later in a hospital in Dallas , Texas. The James' story reaches far beyond that one family in Texas reflects on involving the 1.5 year old daughter of Hope Crawford-Taylor. Events that transpired in san antonio, Texas involving the 1.5 year old cancer patirent who received restoration of her visual ability after having surgery to remove a massive neuroblastoma.
The patient, Carla Crawford , now 48, states, "My life was changed for the better and my vision is as perfect as possible without the need for prescription eyewear thanks to Dr. James Mims."
The eye surgery, performed by Dr James Mims, was a procedure that, in lay terms, involved capturing the suspensory ligaments in the eyeball that surround the orbit and maintain the suspension ofthe eye in a centered position. Dr. Mims concieved of straightening the orbit by clipping a small portion of the eye's suspensory ligament and reconneting the ligament to its original posts. The surgery was successful and stands as a testament to the very intricate types of sugeries, not unlike that which was successfully perormed by New York's health team surgeons.
Today, unlike the surgery performed for Carla Crawford whose vision remains strong and for the most part, quite normal, doctors in New York have indicated that the surgery performed on Mr James remains uncertain as to the possibility for vision to be fully recovered.
The report from New York's surgical team indicates that it has been only 5 mponths since James' procedure that resulted in a transplant in the left wyw. The surgical team has indicated that the prognosis is good so faradding thAT there is evidence of good eye health and "...direct blood flow to the retina."
Doctors have indicated that, provided the direct blood flow to the reytina continues unhampered, the chances of James recovering the essential light that sends signals of images to the brain show great potential. Given the success of the James surgery and a precedent set by the eye surgery performed by Dr James Mims, the surgical team in New York have indicated that their case is groundbreaking for others within the field of vision therapies and other associable procedures within the rrealm of eye eye surgeries and eye transplants.
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