The world's first penis transplant

[mawilson 2,133]

Man rejects first ####### transplant

Ian Sample, science correspondent

Monday September 18, 2006

The Guardian

Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first ####### transplant on a man

whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident

left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have

sexual intercourse. "His quality of life was affected severely," said Dr Weilie Hu,

a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital. Doctors spent 15 hours attaching

a 10cm ####### to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man

half his age agreed to donate their son's organ.

The procedure, described in a case study due to appear in the journal European

Urology next month, represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required

complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels. The surgical team

claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had

a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally.

Doctors have previously succeeded in reuniting men with their sexual organs after

traumatic accidents or attacks, but the Guangzhou operation is the first in which a

donor ####### has successfully been attached to another man.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove

the ####### two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the

recipient and his wife, the transplanted ####### regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said.

An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

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. "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," he wrote in the journal."

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."

In 2001, surgeons were forced to amputate the world's first transplanted hand from

Clint Hallam, a 50-year-old New Zealander, who said he wanted the "hideous and

withered" hand removed because he had become "mentally detached" from it. The

original transplant was conducted by Prof Dubernard's team at the Edouard Herriot

Hospital in Lyons, who have since performed the world's first double arm transplant.

Andrew George, a transplant expert at Imperial College, London, said: "Doing a #######

transplant should be no more complex than anything else. But it takes time for nerve

sensations to kick in and it's not clear whether the patient would ever be able to

have sex with it. The question is whether it's right to be doing a transplant for what

may be seen as cosmetic reasons."

Source

[Ban Hammer 14,269]

did his hand reject it?

[sharky 2]

Man rejects first ####### transplant

Ian Sample, science correspondent

Monday September 18, 2006

The Guardian

Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first ####### transplant on a man

whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident

left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have

sexual intercourse. "His quality of life was affected severely," said Dr Weilie Hu,

a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital. Doctors spent 15 hours attaching

a 10cm ####### to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man

half his age agreed to donate their son's organ.

The procedure, described in a case study due to appear in the journal European

Urology next month, represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required

complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels. The surgical team

claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had

a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally.

Doctors have previously succeeded in reuniting men with their sexual organs after

traumatic accidents or attacks, but the Guangzhou operation is the first in which a

donor ####### has successfully been attached to another man.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove

the ####### two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the

recipient and his wife, the transplanted ####### regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said.

An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

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. "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," he wrote in the journal."

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."

In 2001, surgeons were forced to amputate the world's first transplanted hand from

Clint Hallam, a 50-year-old New Zealander, who said he wanted the "hideous and

withered" hand removed because he had become "mentally detached" from it. The

original transplant was conducted by Prof Dubernard's team at the Edouard Herriot

Hospital in Lyons, who have since performed the world's first double arm transplant.

Andrew George, a transplant expert at Imperial College, London, said: "Doing a #######

transplant should be no more complex than anything else. But it takes time for nerve

sensations to kick in and it's not clear whether the patient would ever be able to

have sex with it. The question is whether it's right to be doing a transplant for what

may be seen as cosmetic reasons."

Source

I guess that means that you won't be getting that one removed from your head then Mawilson???

[camaleon 0]

Am still

I don't think my hand will like the idea, you know, u r actually holding somebody's else D.I.C.K.

lololololol

[mawilson 2,133]

I guess that means that you won't be getting that one removed from your head then Mawilson???

LOL Paul - I'm going to the moon next week - maybe after.

[eric&gen 0]

What a ####### head

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

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Edited September 19, 2006 by ET-US2004

[eric&gen 0]

Guess ####### pump will be out of style soon lol...

[Sheriff Uling 3]

At first I thought you put 10 inches... If that were the case, I wouldn't have been surprised that his wife was like... Take that dahamn thing OFF! LOL! Cheers!!! - Sheriff Uling