Posted on 04/23/2018 11:43:38 PM PDT by aquila48
Doctors in the United States have performed the world’s first penis and scrotum transplant, performing the surgery on a US military sergeant severely injured several years ago in an IED blast in Afghanistan.
The man, whose name was not given, is recovering well and expected to regain both urinary and sexual function, said Richard Redett, who led the transplant team.
He told a press conference on Monday in Baltimore, where the team at Johns Hopkins hospital worked, that the patient underwent 14 hours of surgery in late March.
It is not the world’s first penis transplant – that was carried out in 2014 in South Africa – and nor is it the first in the US. That was in 2016 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
It is, however, the most significant transplant to date.
In addition to a large skin graft covering part of the sergeant’s abdomen, penis and scrotum, surgeons connected three arteries, four veins and two nerves to provide blood flow and sensation to the donated tissue. His internal organs were not damaged by the blast.
The sergeant did not receive testicles from his donor to avoid the ethical issues that might ensue if he later had children, said Damon Cooney, another transplant team member. The testicles would have contained sperm from the recently deceased donor.
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I’m just “hanging around” for the other comments.
It is a wonderful thing. I hope the surgery is successful.
any kids produced later will those of a dead man, but what the heck, right?
The recipient did not receive testicles for that specific issue. I hope the soldier does well.
This just seems so bizarre, but I guess that’s because it’s external. Maybe because we generally have no idea what our kidneys, liver, heart, etc look like, transplantation of someone else’s is kind of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind sort of thing
Could you request XL ?
Yes, but it only comes in black.
Maybe Stormy Daniels can help to restore this man’s sexual functionality. You go girl!
Speak for yourself. Black dudes would not come into the shower at college when I was there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S632l-nBHwA
It’s an operation called an addadictomy
Of course, the scandal of some “donor” — victim of chinese organ thieves — waking up in a bathtub full of ice won’t show up in the media until much later.
Reading is fundamental
You know biological female trannies will be clamoring for this
Sounds like any kids would have to come from a sperm donor.
I wonder if it was a hard surgery?
And long?
There was a baby boy born at Johns Hopkins with no eyelids. He was constantly crying as the light stimulation was too much for him to sleep.
So Dr’s found a solution. When they circumcised the boy, they took the extra skin and made eyelids.
The only problem is...... now he is cockeyed!!!
Alright, I checked the thread (interesting term) and
found no other references so let it be me to first
suggest that we FReepers start a fund to provide
Attorney General Jeff Sessions with such an operation.
Racial Madcow a potential donor?
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