Posted on 05/16/2016 10:07:48 AM PDT by Maceman
BOSTON, MA - In a 15-hour procedure spanning two days and performed by a more than 50-member team, surgeons at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital have completed the first penis transplant in the U.S.
Thomas Manning, a 64-year-old bank courier for Halifax, lost his penis to cancer in 2012 and was the recipient of the transplant. The organ came from a deceased donor.
In a press conference Monday, MGH surgeons described the intense isolation and loss that comes with losing the penis, as a result of injury or illness.
"Ultimately, it's a loss of self-identity," said Dr. Dicken Ko, the team leader and director of MGH's regional urology program. "These devastating losses are endured by themselves alone, and often in silence."
Manning, who surgeons described as a "courageous patient," was one such person. Manning "coped very well with his diagnosis," but "felt the loss" after a partial penectomy, the result of a diagnosis of rare and potentially fatal penile cancer, said his physician, Dr. Adam Feldman. He volunteered for the transplant, Feldman said.
"He wants to be whole again, he wants to be... not in the shadows," said Curtis Cetrulo, who led Manning's surgical team. "That really echoes what a lot of patients with these injuries feel like. It's difficult to talk about."
Surgeons said Manning is doing well Monday, roughly one week since the surgery was completed. They remain "cautiously optimistic."
The surgery means there is potential for other special tissue transplants, such as ears or fingers, Ko said. It also has potential implications for transgender surgeries, although that is outside their initial scope, surgeons said.
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Ah the world we live in.
Read something like that and two things come to mind.
Back in my yute such a headline would never had made it past the editors desk.
Even today, I am looking for the sarcasm/humor/farce angle but deep down inside, know it is a strong possibility.
OH YES.....to ALL CANADIANS and the pushers of their ‘health care’ etc
Why do you suppose the gentleman came to Boston for the procedure.
Waiting list too long?
The way WE can turn the world on its ear is to BAN ALL MEDICAL procedures to ANYONE other than American Citizens.
I know BIG MEDICINE will not let the ‘oil baron etc’ money slip through there fingers but say a 6 month moratorium so the rest of the world AND US can see we don’t need no ‘stinking changes’.
Also did any of you ‘old timers’ think you would ever see the words ‘Mass & Penis’ in the same sentence????
Better than the jokes about a Whizzinator prosthesis that some NBA player bought to beat a drug test.
When he whipped it out to p** in the cup, the observer noticed that it was, well uh, ethnically mismatched.
Btt
Prolly looks like a neopolatin ice cream cone.
Next up, inventing a procedure to make it detachable.
They grafted The Won on somebody? Was it Hell! or ValJar?
I believe Catlyn still has his Bruce.
“Please, baby, I am not from Havana.”
Did you read the article? The guy lost his penis to cancer.
Well, I’m cancelling my organ donor card. I don’t know where my Johnson is going to end up.
Not sure I follow your opinion. Seems heartless to me.
The most amazing part of this story is that the thread hasn’t been shut down yet.
Elephant trunks work good too until someone at the party passes the peanuts!
Is pajama boy on the list?
I’m glad the doctors were able to rise to the occasion.
I don’t think the recipient got testicles along with the penis. Romney’s already a dick. He just needs a set of balls. Unfortunately on him they’d probably wither.
It was a very hard operation, failure would have had stiff consequences.
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