First penis transplant comes unstuck Email Print Normal font Large font Ian Sample in London September 19, 2006
Advertisement AdvertisementA CHINESE man who had the world's first penis transplant had the organ removed two weeks later because he and his wife had a "severe psychological problem" with his new penis.
The man's penis was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year, leaving him with a one centimetre-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 10-centimetre penis to the 44-year-old man 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.
After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally. Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later.
"Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said.
An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body, he said.
Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who this year performed the world's first face transplant on a woman who had been attacked by a dog, 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," Dr Dubernard wrote in European Urology.
"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.
Andrew George, a transplant expert at Imperial College London, said: "Doing a penis 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."
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so i have a question.....
If you sleep with your girl with someone elses dick, that means the dudes dick you using is ****in and not you..lol.
or
If you get another dudes dick and **** a chick, its not cheating cause its not your dick right?
10 cm??? is that even worth the operation christ. you better at least make that **** 15cm for the guy....I mean its one thing to have another dudes dick, but its another to have another dudes small dick.
But in all honesty that is kinda sick, someone elses dick?
it raises questions about the previous owner
where has the dick been?
Did he take care of his dick?
Did he clean his dick?
is there remenence in his urethra of his own semen and urine?
You gotta think about these things before you get a dick transplant.
after further discussion with some of my friends. i'd keep the dick, and so would they. i can get over the fact i've got another man's dick. if my wife can't then **** her. time to get a new one, it's not to hard to find a new wife these days...however, it's not everyday you can get a new dick.
**** no it's not hard to get a wife tony, people go thorugh 2-3 marriages you can find some skank ass ho to marry you. as for it being a black dick, damn that would be funny as ****, especially if it was an upgrade from your initial small asian member. I'd probably go into porn if i had that happen, i mean honestlyyou could actually tell people you're "black from the waist down" and not be lieing.
tito wrote: **** no it's not hard to get a wife tony, people go thorugh 2-3 marriages you can find some skank ass ho to marry you. as for it being a black dick, damn that would be funny as ****, especially if it was an upgrade from your initial small asian member. I'd probably go into porn if i had that happen, i mean honestlyyou could actually tell people you're "black from the waist down" and not be lieing.
