What Is Involved in Penile Transplant Surgery?

According to overseas media reports on the 19th, a Chinese man who successfully completed the world's first allogeneic penis transplantation in Guangzhou last year was forced to suffer severe psychological problems because his wife refused his new "life root" and severely cut off the newly connected penis. ^[1]

Penis transplantation

According to overseas media reports on the 19th, a Chinese man who successfully completed the world's first allogeneic penis transplantation in Guangzhou last year was forced to suffer severe psychological problems because his wife refused his new "life root" and severely cut off the newly connected penis. ^[1]

Last year, a 21-year-old man received a penile transplant for a 21-year-old man in the Taguig Hospital in South Africa. Many people were quite curious after the incident. Will the parties have psychological barriers to using other people's penis? Not only did not, the male patient was quite satisfied with the status quo and had frequent sex with his girlfriend. ^[2]

According to foreign media reports, a man in Cape Town, South Africa, suffered a total penile resection due to accidental infection of traditional circumcision many years ago. He then underwent a nine-hour penis transplant in December last year, the first in the world. success case. The doctor originally thought that the man needed two years to repair and adjust, but after just 5 weeks, the penis on the transplant could be able to move normally and have a normal sex life.

According to foreign media reports, Professor Andre van der Merwe, head of the Department of Urology, said in an interview last week that the male patient has completely overcome physical and psychological obstacles, is quite satisfied with the status quo, and does not care about "the past of the penis." ". In addition, the attending doctor of the male patient also said that the male patient recovered quickly after surgery. Now, like normal people, he can urinate, erect, ejaculate, and have sex smoothly. ^[2]

It is understood that the man, now 44 years old, is a healthy Guangdong male with three children. One year ago, he suffered a major car accident. Although he saved his life, his penis was severed and he did not know where he was falling, leaving only a stump of 0.4 inches long. Since then, his life has become difficult. Due to the severe atrophy of the urethra, he is unable to urinate while standing. In addition, the genitals frequently discharge secretions, causing repeated urinary tract infections. Suffering from both physical and psychological pain, he decided to reconstruct the penis and quickly found a suitable donor for surgery.

After many searches, a 23-year-old brain-dead patient became an ideal penis donor. On the evening of September 20, 2005, the Guangzhou General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Region performed a transplant operation for the patient, and it took 15 hours to complete the operation. On the tenth day after the operation, the patient's blood slowly flowed into the newly implanted penis, and the pale penis began to become congested, rosy, and erect, and there was no rejection on the body.

Doctors said the operation was very successful and attracted worldwide attention. However, in the next month's issue of the European Journal of Urology, doctors reported that they had to cut it off because his wife's difficulty in accepting the organ caused serious psychological problems.

Hu Weilie, director of urology at Guangzhou General Hospital, participated in the operation. He wrote: "This organ urinates smoothly when standing. After 10 days, the catheter is pulled out."

Doctors have also performed some penile reconstructions before, but they believe that this is the first successful transplant of an allogeneic penis. It is understood that the entire operation cost less than 50,000 yuan. It seems that these tens of thousands of pieces have drifted. ^[1]

On April 23, 2018, according to the US technology media The Verge, after a 14-hour operation, a US military veteran successfully transplanted a new penis and scrotum. Johns Hopkins Hospital announced today that the world's most comprehensive penile transplant operation was performed at the hospital at the end of March 2018. So far, the operation looks very successful. The anonymous patient is now able to walk around and should be discharged this week. ^[3]