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First Successful Penis Transplant

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:15PM   
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

• Hope it works outHope it works out (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:35PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @04:35PM (#158043)

  I'm glad for him that he may have the chance at a more normal life after the male genital mutilation complication he suffered through, but I think it is noteworthy how the doctors say that he recognizes the member as his own.
  In a world where penis panics are a thing, I'm hoping that he will be psychologically strong to endure harmful thoughts he, his wife and his tribe may send his way.

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• Re:Hope it works out(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @08:34AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @08:34AM (#158272)

  His first action was to cut the end off.

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