It finally happened--a penis transplant

[waltappel 1]

From http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/09/19/penis.transplant.ap/index.html.

I'm just speculating here, but if I got my dick cut off, then got a new one, I'm thinking I would want to hang on to the new one for a while.

Walt

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Chinese surgeons report penis transplant
POSTED: 4:13 p.m. EDT, September 19, 2006

(AP) -- 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.

[2fat2fly 0]

Can they do upgrades? I'm still trying to figure out how having a replacement dick is more traumatic than having no dick.

I should get bunches of karma points for the jokes that I'm not making right now

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[JohnMitchell 16]

Does he have to wait for the swelling to go down before he uses it?

[Lindercles 0]

You may find yourself holding on to the new one quite a bit if your wife doesn't like the idea of having some random dudes cock inside her.

[waltappel 1]

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You may find yourself holding on to the new one quite a bit if your wife doesn't like the idea of having some random dudes cock inside her.

A random braindead or all-the-way dead dude's cock. It's not like the former owner is going to be going around telling the world he scored with her!

Walt

[namgrunt 0]

10 CM = 3.5 inches

now if that could be added rather than replacing

just a thought
if you could add to what you got,at the rate of o say $1000 per inch would you do it and how much would you spend????????????????


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[Lindercles 0]

At $1000 per inch, I'd donate!

[jtval 0]

I'd add 20 inches, but I would want it as thin as spaghetti.

IF youre gonn ado something so drastic you may as well get some attention for it.

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[jtval 0]

I'd add 3 inches...to the back of your head.


and 13 inches to your S/O

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[Sockpuppet 0]

When they took his penis off do you think the doctors teabagged him with it while he was under anastetic....you know for the irony factor.

I think my karma score is like crude....going down in value.

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[Richards 0]

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but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

Perhaps he couldn't stand that some other mans dickwas satisfying his wife. It would be worse if she said that it was soo much bigger than his previous appendage.

Richards

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

[michalm21 2]

unfortunately, his "new" 4-incher, hehe, could not raise to the occasion. docs sait it's for peeing purposes only, so what's the point of keeping it? lol

[airtwardo 7]

What do you mean FINALLY happend?


You were in the medical field...you never heard of an Addadicktome?

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[waltappel 1]

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What do you mean FINALLY happend?


You were in the medical field...you never heard of an Addadicktome?

No, but I had a patient one time who got surgery to give him a permanent hard-on. Pretty funny looking and I'm sure it sucked when he had to piss but I still thought it was a cool idea.

Walt

[airtwardo 7]

I'm sure it sucked when he had to piss

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Was he a SHORT GUY?

Maybe that's WHY he got the surgery...going for the ARCH effect when takin a leak!

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[2fat2fly 0]

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unfortunately, his "new" 4-incher, hehe, could not raise to the occasion. docs sait it's for peeing purposes only, so what's the point of keeping it? lol

Don't they have duct tape and popsicle sticks there?

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[airtwardo 7]

Don't they have duct tape and popsicle sticks there?

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[Buried 0]

44 yr old mand getting a 22 yr old penis... i wonder if he was then able to screw like a 22 yr/o

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[jtval 0]

They should have, but I guess it wouldn't be called teabaggin' since they didn't use the coin purse.

semi-auto-felating would be a closer term, I think.

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[Randy_H 0]

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unfortunately, his "new" 4-incher, hehe, could not raise to the occasion. docs sait it's for peeing purposes only, so what's the point of keeping it? lol

ummmm....so he could still give people a roman helmet?

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[ryoder 1,590]

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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.

When your wife prefers your dick to be removed, that should tell you something about your relationship. Somehow this reminds me of the old Sam Kinison routine about how married life would be if your dick was detachable.

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