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First Successful Penis Transplant

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-go-first dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A 21-year-old man in South Africa has received the world’s first successful penis transplant and accepts the organ as his own, doctors said on Friday.

The operation took a team of surgeons nine hours and has allowed the patient to become sexually active.

The man’s penis was amputated three years ago after a circumcision went wrong at a traditional initiation ceremony. The patient, who has not been named, received the new organ from a deceased donor on 11 December and has regained all functions.

Professor Andre van der Merwe, head of the urology division at Stellenbosch University, whose staff carried out the operation at Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, said the recipient is doing “extremely well” both physically and psychologically.

“The patient accepted the penis as his own,” he told the eNews Channel Africa (eNCA). “He told me in no uncertain terms that the fact it belonged to somebody else is completely out of his mind and he’s moved on with this as his own penis. That’s absolutely the way we want it.”

Source:The Guardian

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:20PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:20PM (#158040) Journal

    Let me be the first to flop right down and expand upon the potentially thorny issue.

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  • (Score: 1) by BK on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:40PM

    by BK (4868) on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:40PM (#158046)

    No need to be such a dick about it...

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @07:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @07:10PM (#158083)

      This is a big issue, we must penetrate the subject if we want to come to a conclusion.

      • (Score: 1, Redundant) by TLA on Monday March 16 2015, @02:22AM

        by TLA (5128) on Monday March 16 2015, @02:22AM (#158197) Journal

        Um, well, the *thrust* of my work will be to *erect* a series of *hard* protocols, designed to *penetrate* the *ins* and *outs* of tissue transplantation on sexual performance. Hopefully, it will all *come* together.

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  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Sunday March 15 2015, @05:24PM

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Sunday March 15 2015, @05:24PM (#158060)

    At last 'Percy' becomes a reality.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067568/ [imdb.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @06:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @06:17PM (#158074)

    Coming soon: boner donor bank.