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Tue 19 Sep, 2006 07:41 am
Sept. 19, 2006, 6:53AM
First penis transplant reversed after 2 weeks
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 eight 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.
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Re: First Transplanted Penis "Whacked Off"
edgarblythe wrote:There had been no signs of the 10-centimetre (4-inch) organ being rejected by the recipient's body.
And yet they still rejected the little prick....
Ah, if it had been 4 1/2 inches, who knows - /
I wonder what the psychological problem was.
Was it because it was only 4"?
or was it the thought that it was another guy doing the job?
Sorry for all concerned here. Yikes.
I think he possibly felt like it allowed another's "presence" into their relationship.
Well he can be thankful that he's still got a good head on his shoulders.
I do have to give it to the metric system; it might only be centimeters but it was ten of them.
I've never read Blase Daily. It's probably all right.
I have it on good authority via the grape vine..
that the Fiancee of the Donor claimed she had become quite attached to the organ and it was rightfully hers. Or part of it anyway.
Unwilling to share, the wife ordered the poor guy to get rid of it.