Combined Whole Eye and Face Transplant: Microsurgical Strategy and 1-Year Clinical Course.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Catastrophic facial injury with globe loss remains a formidable clinical problem with no previous reports of reconstruction by whole eye or combined whole eye and facial transplant.

Objective

To develop a microsurgical strategy for combined whole eye and facial transplant and describe the clinical findings during the first year following transplant.

Design, setting, and participant

A 46-year-old man who sustained a high-voltage electrical injury with catastrophic tissue loss to his face and left globe underwent combined whole eye and face transplant using personalized surgical devices and a novel microsurgical strategy at a specialized center for vascularized composite allotransplantation.

Main outcomes and measures

Reperfusion and viability of the w

SUBMITTER: Ceradini DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11385319 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature