[Dr.Kami Parsa] 
My specific field is oculoplastic
surgery. I do primarily reconstructive
surgery, revisional surgery, cosmetic
surgery around the eyes. These are
patients who have had previous plastic
surgery somewhere else and they've had
complications around the eyes, they might
need some sort of revisional surgery, or
primarily they come in for
blepharoplasty or mid face lift or a
brow lift.
[Case #1 Marlie Casseus]
[Male Reporter] 
Remarkable things happen every day at
the operating rooms of our local
hospitals but nothing was more
remarkable this week than the surgery
that took place at Jackson Memorial
Hospital. Medical team worked for 17
hours to remove an unsightly and
dangerous growth from the face of Marlie
Casseus, a 14 year old Haitian girl. And
joining us now are Dr.Jesus Gomez,
the surgeon who performed that lengthy
operation on Wednesday, also joined by
Dr. Kami Parsa with Bascom Palmer Eye
Institute, a surgeon there also part of
the team. You know Dr. Parsa, I had read
that this poor little girl was losing
her eyesight at least in one eye, can her
eyesight be saved?
[Dr.Parsa] 
Correct it can, actually one of the things that, as Dr.
Gomez was mentioning, this tumor at this
lesion, has this tendency to expand and
one of the things it was doing, the
reason we wanted to do this surgery
sooner than later, it was compressing the
optic nerve, which is responsible for
vision and part of the procedure
initially was to go in and just do the
side that it was compressing and that
was the left side. So we went in and
decompressed the orbit and removed the
floor of the orbit and that's that
created more space for the optic nerve.
[Male Reporter] 
So the pressure on the optic nerve has
been relieved?
[Dr.Parsa] 
It's been relieved yeah and we reconstructed a new floor for that so
with titanium plates.
[Male reporter] 
Right, well I want to thank you for the good work you do
and Dr. Parsa and also Dr. Gomez, it's
really a remarkable thing. I spent a lot
of time in Haiti, I've seen a lot of
children who need this kind of help.
It's very gratifying to know that, in
our community, they're getting it.
[Dr.Parsa] 
She's just an amazing story and an incredible person
really. I learned so much from her, she
just to see that we go through life we
think that that what we experience, oh my
god I had a bad day, there's traffic, I
this job you know, I have a headache, I'm sick,
these are nothing, I mean a fraction.
I mean you can't even compare it the
magnitude of what she experienced when
she was living life that way.
[Male Reporter] 
And how's she doing now? How, what's the end
of the story?
[Dr.Parsa] 
She's gone through this amazing transformation, she is doing
fantastic. She is back in Haiti, she's
starting to go to school. You got to
think of her as a normal teenager who
looks like this.
[Dr. Kami K. Parsa M.D. Oculoplastic Surgeon 465 N.Roxbury Drive Suite 1001 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 tel:(310)777-8880 email:info@oculoplastic.info]
