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Title: First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
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Reuters
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060919/od_nm/penis_transplant1_dc_1
Published: Sep 19, 2006
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2006-09-19 21:38:27 by a vast rightwing conspirator
Keywords: penis
Views: 159
Comments: 10
First penis transplant reversed after two weeks Tue Sep 19, 8:41 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - 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. ADVERTISEMENT 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-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. "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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#1. To: All (#0)
This sounds very scientific.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
laughing...
The John Holmes of Asians.
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire (1694-1778)
It doesn't say whose penis it was. We are only told that those who donated it, were the parents of a brain-dead guy.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
gosh, you'd think they'd give it more than two weeks. i mean, wouldn't you still rather have one than not even if it's a bit misshapen?
It's the dead guys dick for me, thank-you....
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire (1694-1778)
AP reports it's previous owner was Oscar Mayer.
Dubernard writes the in journal, "Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person's face. Clearly, in the Chinese case the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the recipient's wife and raised many questions." damn women.....they are always the problem LOL... its better than nothing wifie...LOL
the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man
#2. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#1)
This sounds very scientific.
#3. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0)
10-centimetre (4-inch) organ
#4. To: christine (#2)
#5. To: MEN (#0)
"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"
#6. To: christine (#5)
#7. To: christine (#5)
gosh, you'd think they'd give it more than two weeks. i mean, wouldn't you still rather have one than not even if it's a bit misshapen?
#8. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#4)
It doesn't say whose penis it was.
#9. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0)
"Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first face transplant on a woman who had been attacked by a dog this year, said psychological factors were a serious issue for many patients receiving certain "allografts", or organs from donors.
#10. To: christine (#5)
"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"
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