First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
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LONDON - 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-centimeter (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 Center 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.
LONDON - 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-centimeter (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 Center 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.
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I'm guessing " severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife " and "4 icnhes" was a step down. A downgrade.
Poor guy....poor woman.
this is the dumbest thing i have read in a long time!
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yea its hard to find the actual story funny, but you definately run with a story like this.
its pretty much the worse thing that can happen to a man.
So is the wife "technically" not really sleeping with you either?
there is no humor in a broken penis....
I can tell from all the commericals on the tube!
Yeah... I guess you're right.
Imagine if your donor was 'Blackzilla'... or the porn star, 'Big Dick Black'.
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Hilarious.
All that trouble for only a 4 incher??
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(Scene: Bedroom. Night.)
Husband thinks: I have somebody else's, here. My wife is enjoying somebody else's, so she must want someone else's!
Wife thinks: He's thinking I'm enjoying somebody else's, so now I have to complain that I'm not enjoying it.
Husband thinks: She's not enjoying it. It's only four inches. Get it off, and whip on a new one. But wait. She might get someone else in the meantime!
Wife says: Awww, now you've lost your er, thread.
Husband thinks: Okay, I'll wake it up. Hang on, this belongs to somebody else! I'm not touching somebody else's!
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Okay, I know that's a bit crude, but that highlights a few of the hangups a couple might have. It's a bioethical (t)issue, alright.
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