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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, Touché) by Jaruzel on Monday March 16 2015, @11:26AM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Monday March 16 2015, @11:26AM (#158300) Homepage Journal

    I held off commenting on this thread as I wanted to see the comment fallout. I foolishly hoped it wouldn't be so, but no, I was proven right; You are all children - you can't even have a mature conversation about a fairly important medical milestone.

    THIS is why I don't frequent SN as much as I used to - the quality of comments is so low, it's just not worth the effort most of the time.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @01:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @01:38PM (#158335)

    Well, if all the mature people remain silent, don't be be surprised that all comments are from immature people.

    I also didn't comment, but for the simple reason that I had nothing worthwhile to say about it.