Talk about having your husband by the balls... Penis Transplant Removed After Two Weeks By Marilynn Marchione Associated Press posted: 19 September 2006 04:28 pm ET Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife. The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal—European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology. The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that "an unfortunate traumatic accident'' left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally. Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ. "There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife'' for a transplant, and the operation "was discussed again and again'' and approved by the hospital's ethics committee, Hu writes in the journal. Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involves standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves. From a medical point of view, "the main hurdle is the functional recovery,'' said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. From arm and leg reattachments, it's known that nerve regrowth occurs at a rate of about an inch a month and often is insufficient to allow normal use, he said. However, the ethical and psychological challenges in such cases can be even more paramount, as this and other recent transplants involving hands and faces illustrate. "Some of the considerations for a penile transplant are the same as for a hand or face transplant,'' such as the need to take lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, Lee said. The drugs can cause kidney and other damage, acceptable risks when the transplant involves a vital organ such as a liver or heart, but more ethically perilous when the operation is aimed at improving quality of life rather than extending it, Dr. Yoram Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, writes in an accompanying commentary in the urology journal. Psychological issues are keenly important. The world's first hand transplant recipient stopped taking immune suppression drugs and later requested that the hand be amputated. Lee recalled speaking with the recipient of the world's first double-hand transplant in France, who told him it took months for him to accept his new hands and stop referring to one as "it.'' Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed "because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis,'' the surgeons report in the journal. Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors report. If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counseling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided,'' Vardi wrote in his commentary.
What do you mean allow this? If your dick was cut off you would be jumping at the chance for a new one.
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th Make no bones about it... It wasn't the transplant that bothered me, but may the afterlife be kind on the first woman that tells me to amputate my own penis (or anyone else's that's surgically attached to my body). :
It sounds like his wife wanted it removed cause it was too big. It was probably a 55 year old Jewish guy with 13" black 'member' hanging off of him. His wife was complaining cause he kept calling her 'ho' and saying 'bitch, get your trick ass in here'
Yeah you need to get that boat out on the water no since in letting it just set around and depreciate
I need to check my organ donor card to see what all it covers. Heart, OK Eyes, OK *scratches penis off card* Kidneys, OK
You dont want the recipient to ask for a refund? "Excuse me doc, but did this penis come from an adult?"
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th Horray for the Chinese and girls with small hands and chinese girls with small hands (and sexy disformed feet that fit in doll shoes)!
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th How about; you wang some and you lose some.
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th The technique of foot binding is still regarded as a safe and legal procedure in at least two countries...
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th the same world that announces that paris hilton is a celebrity. Just because she is a rich slut dosent mean she is a celebrity. I hope she is kidnapped, and annaly raped for a few months.
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th A little A2M action? :
Re: Can somebody tell me what the fuck kind of a world we live in would allow th exactly, it's originally known as the "Dwaine Train" it uses the chant "Pussy to asshole to mouth SWITCH!!! Pussy to asshole to mouth SWITCH!!!
Did you buy some surplus railroad equipment so you have the bells, flashing lights, and traffic arms in your room? "We all switch places when she rings the bell' ;D
