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Related: About this forumPenis transplant recipient doing well
Science More than a year and a half after surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital performed a complex genital transplant on a soldier who also lost his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan, the man says he has normal functions and is feeling whole.
The progress report came Thursday in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from about two dozen doctors, mostly from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, but also from Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey, and Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.
The letter says the man has near-normal erections and the ability to achieve orgasm, and can urinate while standing, without straining, frequency, or urgency, with the urine discharged in a strong stream.
The transplants remain difficult because they require a willing donor who is a match medically as well as in age and skin tone. The family of the donor to the soldier specifically consented, saying in a statement they wanted to support the man for serving his country.
The progress report came Thursday in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from about two dozen doctors, mostly from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, but also from Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey, and Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.
The letter says the man has near-normal erections and the ability to achieve orgasm, and can urinate while standing, without straining, frequency, or urgency, with the urine discharged in a strong stream.
The transplants remain difficult because they require a willing donor who is a match medically as well as in age and skin tone. The family of the donor to the soldier specifically consented, saying in a statement they wanted to support the man for serving his country.
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Penis transplant recipient doing well (Original Post)
47of74
Nov 2019
OP
Expected to read a Pravda story gloating about Putin planting tRump in White House.
IADEMO2004
Nov 2019
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Beakybird
(3,333 posts)1. I was afraid to read that he had the penis transplanted to his forehead.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)4. Works better transplanted to the chin
or so my GF says . . .
magicarpet
(14,149 posts)2. Looking down the road,... will they eventually...
.... have penises for sale at WalMart, discretely shelved in the men's underwear department ?
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)6. In Pharmacy, next to the "male enhancement products"
EN-ZYTE, the massively fraudulent, disproven product. It's on the shelf near the condoms.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)7. Dick in a box
pop goes the weasel.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)3. Expected to read a Pravda story gloating about Putin planting tRump in White House.
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)5. That's really nice, but why would age and skin tone matter?
And Im curious if it would include testes, and whether the biology is such that testes would produce the DNA of the donor or of the recipient?
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)8. When you think you have seen it all, there is always more....and "the more" is
more incredible than what you have seen before.