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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They do, sure. And I don't want to be a stick in the mud on a light-hearted thread, but I do want to emphasize an important aspect of this surgery.
DoD has been looking into this because of wounded warriors who have lost their organ in IED attacks.
According to doctors, the first thing these young men look for is their organ, and not their legs. It is more psychologically damaging for them to lose their "manhood" than it is for them to lose their legs.
This is an important effort. Really.
To be honest, I did not read beyond the excerpt. Too much news about transgendering and Jenner, etc. Heck, I had a government form recently asking our company status regarding transgender! Sick of it all.
Punch line to joke: is that you wilt?
Wow, it looks like Joe is living large with a big spring of confidence!
“Well, that’s what I heard!”
Glad to hear it was a misunderstanding, I know from experience that jumping to conclusions is not the best exercise in the world.
Those are some of the best SNL skits ever.
I’ve had it done and now I’ve doubled my output. I’m up to 2 times a day. Since once a day is an improvement for most of you should I put my trade-in on ebay?
The psychological aspect of dealing with and accepting (mentally, not medically) such a transplant is going to be a problem with many recipients. I’ve read of a different sort of surgery that uses donated tissue as a sort of collagen “lattice” to regrow the patient’s tissue. This will avoid the psychological problems, imho. It’s not the same as looking down and seeing another man’s organ there.
Reminds me of Buddy Hackett’s “Baby Elephant Trunk” routine. Not safe for work or the easily offended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5Y8kB824E
Your dead penis is being replaced by a dead penis. Wonderful!
Why do you have a problem with this?
That part of the body gets damaged and needs repairs on occasion.
It is like arguing that women who have mastectomies should not have breast reconstruction.
See #42
Yeah... I see lawsuits! Your honor he did me with a dead mans dong... and it was my ex’s!
Sort of like the people a few years back who got all huffy about the hospital that grew and implanted a vagina not realizing that there is an actual birth defect that causes some females to be born without. And those were the women getting the transplants.
While there are some doctors who go along with the latest fad there are far more that are actually doing stellar and necessary work.
I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I said try. Does not mean I always do. :)
New hope for Shrillary!!!
How did they know to put the dead man’s slong on ice to get it ready for the transplant? How could they find it after it was on ice for a while?
So I guess “playing with himself” is no longer an option...
I don’t understand the tone of the thread.
If a soldier got his penis blown off by an IED, wouldn’t we be willing as taxpayers, to pay to have something done for the guy?
This isn’t a case of someone wanting a sex change or enhancement.
This is someone who had cancer, lost his sexual organ because of it, and didn’t feel his sex life should have been over.
Don’t mean to be a buzzkill, but I am embarrassed by the tone here. I know most of us guys get a lot of humor out of seeing things thrown at other guy’s crotches, and a lot of that may just be gallows humor, but this isn’t that.
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