This man received the world's FIRST eye transplant, but CAN HE SEE? 

Aaron’s spirit is AMAZING! “If it can’t help me, hopefully they can learn enough from me that it can help the next person..”. What a generous human being!❤

This guy is a pioneer to eye transplants. I hope we learn so much from this and hope he lives long to share the tale. Amazing time to be alive

As a dude born blind in an eye this fills me with so much hope.

If they are able to restore sight i hope this man knows that every single human being from now to the end of time, who regains their sight via transplant, owes it in part, to him. Man is written into history. The doctors, researchers, and patient are actively laying the groundwork for humans to conquer blindness. What an amazing time to be alive. Think about how many countless people could have their sight restored again because of what started here. Human kind is sometimes awe inspiring. I hope him and the doctors keep making history

if they figure out how to get his eye working, that means blindness has been cured from damaged eyes

I'll save u ten minutes. He can't see.

This is amazing! My 1 year old was born without eyes (but luckily has her optic nerves). If she could even get 1 eye transplant it would change her life. I wonder if it would even be easier because the nerves from her eye to optic nerve to her brain would not need to be re-written, it would just be like a baby opening it’s eyes for the first time.

He has the best possible outlook and attitude. Best of luck to him.

This is incredible! Even if he never gains sight, it's a huge step forward to understanding what is possible in the future.

The eye transplant is amazing. But also can I just say that the face transplant is definitely the best one that has ever been done so far? What a fantastic result all around. ❤

Aaron has a heroic spirit. I hope miracles happen for him.

I can only but dream for the day we can repair optic nerve damage, I have optic disc atrophy, it’s taken away my driving licence and my perfect vision. Hopefully scientists and doctors will achieve this in my lifetime.

This guy just paved the way forward to help so many folks with missing eyes now that we know it works.

After watching this, it brought me to attention to look at my experience as a bit of light to my city. I was first diagnosed with a Hemangioma on my tongue at 3, and after 3 'failed' surgeries, was upgraded to a Vascular Malformation. By the age of 10, and the only child in my city to have it, I've had 12 surgeries and one of them consisted of the removal of my tongue just behind the tonsils, to the front tip, and reattach it upside-down. We didn't have the greatest equipment at the children's hospital in the 90's. It wasn't until I was 15 and on my 3rd surgeon, he bought a used YAG laser from the US with his own money to further test treatments on me. 19 was my last surgery (over 25 surgeries total) and by this point, has been in remission for almost 20 years. I do get the odd flare-up. Also, from MRI results, it's not just my tongue, but my entire left side of jaw and down into trachea.

This made me so conscious of the pains people go through. Bless this man. I hope he recovers quickly.

We shouldn't be asking whether he can see, rather how powerful his genjutsu!

I really hope him the best

This is awesome! I respect Aaron going through with the surgery if nothing else, to provide beneficial information to the medical field as a whole.

Absolutely amazing!!And the fortitude of Aaron and his family are out of this world. Good luck to all xx

This is a milestone! Once scientists figure out how to get optical nerves to bind together again and function, eye transplants could become mainstream. i wonder if they are getting closer, however, because there are reports of full arm transplants that have worked and nerves were joining to the point where the person can move the arm and fingers. Fingers crossed!

This is amazing. Even though the eye doesn't send visual information to his brain, it's still fantastic that the transplanted eye is doing as well as it is. Maybe someday people with my eye condition (retinopathy of prematurity) will have surgical options available to us. I'm praying for Aaron, and any/all the doctors who have worked, or who will work with him. What an exciting time to be alive.

Wow. Thanks for the video, Michael! I had a nearly 20 year career in eyecare starting out working as a lab tech making prescription lenses, then 15+ years as an ophthalmic tech. Spent the last 3 years of that working for retina specialists. Got burned out and needed to take a break for a while, but that "while" has been almost 8 years so far. I often wonder how much has advanced in ophthalmology since 2015, all I've learned is "still there" like muscle memory, and sometimes I feel like I could just pick up where I left off, but I'm positive there's a lot of new methods and tech I'm unaware of. If anything, it's nice to see a video like this as it may be the catalyst of returning.

This is juicy! We are living in the dark ages of medical care, but the future is bright.

You were a good story teller. Made the science entertaining. Not to mention the uplifting spirit of Aaron.

This is a very good man, Thank you Aaron , we all love you and wish you the best in life. I hope this surgery would be named after him.

I’m starting med school this September and stories like this are so amazing and fascinating and I just can’t WAIT to join the field!

As someone with Uveitis, who is always scared of pressure causing glaucoma and eventual vision loss. This is a surprisingly hopeful story.

As someone who’s had both eyes removed as a child but still have most of my optic nerve this is so encouraging to me. This is a great step towards helping so many people.

What an honor it would be to take part in such an exciting experiment! I can't wait to see how it progresses.

Damn imagine how cool it will be when we get the 1st eye transplant where patient will see, can't wait :)

Really cool of him to accept the risks with the hope of teaching and helping others in the future. Human experimentation is incredibly useful but it MUST be done with informed consent and this is a great example of that.

This sounds as goundbreaking as hearing about the first ever internal organ transplant. Exciting stuff for the world of medicine.

Amazing! One stop closer to unlocking the Eternal Mangekyo!

Maybe he won't ever see from that eye but the fact that the eye is alive shows potential. Hopefully it will lead somewhere, but otherwise we can only hope artificial eyes become a thing

The face transplant looks like it went really well. He looks good! Congrats to Aaron & his amazing doctors for such a milestone. It'll be amazing if he manages to regain sight in the new eye. That would so cool.

Wow! I love the way you explain everything. You got a new sub. Amazing video!

First time I see one of his videos, he's a really good speaker. He got me exited thinking about the investigation to be done and the further undersanding of how our body can be fixed. Regards.

I subscribed to your channel for more such information . Hope you will be bigger youtuber one day who will influence PPL for good

Short version: He can't see.

Wow! To have a chance at future vision is a great thing!

Stuff like this is what makes me so interested in science and makes me excited about the possibilities we’ll have in the future.

This is incredible

Eye & partial face loss can happen to anybody at any time. Audience wishes him all the best. Cheers!

It's heartbreaking to see he suffered such a terrible injury. It's also a miracle he survived. I wish him all the best in his recovery.

Great video, and breakdown. Subbed.

Outstanding. Determination is key. I read about the first heart transplant. It was pushing the limits, thats how we go further!

Aaron, all the best mate!

So many blessings to the family of the donors family. So name blessings and so much gratitude to this man and his family for not giving up and willingness to help all of humanity in receiving this transplant. Praises to the teams who have worked so hard to further our understanding of science so humanity will benefit.

He got hurt at his old job, but never quit looking for the next one. A real hero.

Absolutely wonderful story! ❤️ ❤❤❤

Medical advancements and Science behind it is so fucking amazing.

Thanks for your videos. I still have many to view. Some questions that I have not heard answers by you or other eye doctors. 1 - For monofocal iol implant, how close should the patient see 20-20 for far vision (8th ? line on an eye chart pinned to a wall). 2 - Do monofocal iol come in different sizes and how is the size determined? 3 - What are the difference in monofocal iol? Can the differences be measured in numerical percentages of (a) light passing through and (b) contrast sensitivity? 4 - Compare the eyhance and iPure. 5 - What is seen through a multi-focal iol? I tried a tri-focal eyeglasses and found that I had to bob my head up and down among the 3 lenses to find the usable one. A nuisance and a pain in the neck. Thanks in advance for your answers.

Wow, these doctors and surgeons impress me!

I hope everything goes well and more people can get benefits of that.

Never though I would be following an eye doctor, but damn dude you are very well spoken

This is the side of human beings and human interaction that gives me hope for our futures

Wow, this video was really eye opening

I am glad it looks like it worked out for him and didn't get rejected or anything. I don't know if I was in his situation if I could have gone through with it. It is nice of him to risk it all to help research.

Amazing times we live in....thank you for this wonderful and informative video. Perhaps one day they may even be able to transplant a brain for those that lack one.

7:48 OMG this shows what he looked like before. No wonder he couldn’t eat solid food.

The coolest and best thing would be if in the future they can make artificial bionic eyes and artificial optical nerves and have it transplanted and the artificial nerve going all the way back into the brain where the sight is interpreted. To somehow simulate the same way a real optical nerve would transmit the electrical signals. If that would ever happen it would set the stage for tremendous things in sight.

i am also hoping he will be the breakthrough for this! I have a community also patients all with CRVO and our vision is almost like 10 to 20% vision, hopefully if his retina is able to regen, there are also hope for us to be able to get this treatment and hope we will be able to get some part of our vision, we dont wish to have a perfect vision, we just wish we can roughly see our love ones in the bad eye

To this point where he had the guts to put the first ever eye in another person those doctors need to put EVERYTHING on the table to get his vision. This is history. And it's actually really cool just because milestones are being hit. My late aunt had cancer twice, if she didn't go for the clinical trials, well, it would've been over like 10 years ago. Or even 2 years ago. She died because of something else and i'm kinda happy to say that. You can recognize a warrior by it's scars.

Amazing!

I didn't know you could transplant a whole face like that... wild... I hope it all works out!

Eye loved this video❤

I can tell you from my own experience with two detached retinas…. Tissues like retina cells that are not supposed to be able to regenerate….they do! It’s been a lot of years, but the eye they said I’d never regain useful sight in again, it’s 1000% better than after the operation. The human body somehow knows what to do I think. On things that are as critical for survival as eyesight, I think the body figures out its own solution and I bet that’s what’s happening for that blessed guy in his optic nerve.

Dude did it all for the better of the world!

The nerve connections would be too complex to ever accomplish vision restoration via an eye transplant. To answer your question, vision would have to be restored using a prosthetic eye camera connected to stimulate the olfactory lobe sensor area similar to Neuralink but as a receiver not a sender.

Hopefully he'll be able to regain vision one day.

Acclimating to his new face! DAMN! It's not just the eye but also a FACE TRANSPLANT? DAMN!

Hey Doc, I have a question. Can peripheral nerves regenerate? I have something called STAT3 GOF and it has left me unable to stand. The disease has also attacked my hands. Do you have any suggestions that I can give to my rheumatologist next time I see him?

If someone is a doctor can you tell me, can we mix the donor body's dna using crispr with the receiver to avoid rejection? Essencially disquising the receivers body as the donor's

I wonder if injecting Yamanaka factors where the optic nerve is attached could restore vision. Somehow even if that works, I suspect it would be garbled and just distracting, as nerve alignment is probably far from correct, and he would have to keep the eyelid closed most of the time.

Damn, I’m impressed! That is so much science wrapped up in one operation! 140 surgeons, nurses, and healthcare professionals. On one operation? Damn, that was some technical stuff. I just don’t know what to say.

OSK Treatment would likely restore vision. It already has in mice and is currently in testing with NHP

If not him, I hope to soon see vision restoration surgeries in the near future.😊

Hopefully this man can soon see out of that eye. He’s definitely pioneering something really special and potentially opening the door for other blind people to regain their vision through these new types of surgeries.

I’m glad to see doctors didn’t turn a blind eye to it.

Perfect short video

Curious how much harder it is to not only transplant the eye but the vision also. I can only imagine it being many times harder.

I am a left leg amputee and blind on the left eye,im hoping 1 day that eye transplant would just a ordinary proceedure and not a very rare one

Incredible

Hopefully first for his sake he surprises the world & gains exceptional eyesight. More importantly our heroes the donor & his family for making this possible. Yes lets pray the risk taken to perform this surgery pays off in treatments & cures in 2024 & beyond.

I’m very impressed at how your videos are so easy to understand and super informative. All I want for next Christmas is an iPhone camera to replaced one of my eyes.

I wonder how long that eye will remain viable, and whether or not it causes him any pain/discomfort.

Aaron is a bloody hero.

The key to vision is the optical nerves and retina to recieve light signals. If they can find a way to regenerate the patients own retina cells and transplant it to an artificial eyeball which is superior in its function and structure to human eyeball then there is no need for a live organ transplant. Like prosthetic arms and legs, an artificial eye can be attached to the ciliary muscles of the eye socket to enable the patient to move his eye and adjust the focus.

I'm 39yo. I've been 90% blind in one eye due to an injury when I was 3. I've had countless surgeries including artificial lens implant, just to save the eye. I love seeing this technology move forward. I can't imagine what it would be like to be able to see out of eyes.

I thought this was a fake video - based on my education, nerve can't be attached, hopefully they learn something and can get better at it. This is a great step.

Pretty cool stuff. Hopefully it works out. 🤞

If I remember correctly nerves can heal but it's like on a basis of years not like months or a year so since it's an extremely sensitive area this could take 10 plus years for his optic nerves to attach to his new nerve endings in the new eyeball

interesting procedure done

No he can’t see through that eye! there I saved you 10 minutes

holy crap , i had a wisdom tooth removed n thought "I am incomplete :(" I couldnt survive what he is going through. very strong willed person man.

This is freakin' awesome. These doctors are truly somethin' else. Of course, I would hate to flip the bills on these procedures, hopefully they got some government grants to help out.

Firmware issues. Is it possible to connect nerves

Remember that accident. I too work on powerlines. Hope all goes well brother we are praying for you!

This thing is life changing

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