First Penis Transplant Reversed

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First Penis Transplant Reversed

LONDON (Reuters) - Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.

Dr Weilie Hu and surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the complex 15-hour surgery on a 44-year old man whose penis had been damaged in a traumatic accident.

The microsurgery to attach the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man, was successful but Hu and his team removed it two weeks later.

"Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Hu said in a report published online by the peer reviewed journal European Urology, without elaborating.


"This is the first reported case of penile transplantation in a human," Hu added.

Both the man and his wife had requested the surgery. He had been unable to have intercourse or urinate properly since the accident that occurred 8 months before the surgery was performed.

Ten days after the operation, which had been approved by the hospital's medical ethical committee, the recipient had been able to urinate.

There had been no signs of the 10-centimetre (4-inch) organ being rejected by the recipient's body. But Hu said more cases and longer observation are needed to determine whether sexual sensation and function can be restored.

"The patient finally decided to give up the treatment because of the wife's psychological rejection, as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis" Hu added.

In a commentary in the journal, Yoram Vardi, of the Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel, said the successful surgery represents an additional step in contemporary medicine.

But he added that careful patient selection is required as well as thorough informed consent of the patient and his family.

"Satisfactory consideration of these issues must be taken into account so that this approach can be considered a serious therapeutic option in the future," Vardi added.

I take it the missus didn't like it because technically it wasn't her husbands penis?

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crystaline said:
OHHhhhh, the topic title made it sound like the penis had reversed and gone inside out!

Was gonna suggest some interesting things for that...


Lol, you mean like back inside the body?

They do that for sex changes and use the head of the penis as a clitoris after the operation so some stimulation can be felt after everything has been hacked off and moved around. :p
 
HEADRAT said:
If I was having one transplanted on I would have made damn sure it was bigger than 4 inches ;)

HEADRAT


lol

Makes me think of Deuce Bigalow European Gigolow/

"I take my three inches elsewhere."
 
eXSBass said:
8 Inches? :eek:
I thought the minimum requirements were 4 inches and the recommended were 6?

Unfortunately it doesn't come with a manual my friend. There is no 'reccommended' becasue women vary in size too and sometimes too big can be bad as well as too small.

I just wanted to brag TBH, but its not a question of "big is better than everything else"
 
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