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Title: Surgeons announce world’s first successful penis transplant
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The Washington Post
URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ ... t-successful-penis-transplant/
Published: Mar 13, 2015
Author: Rachel Feltman
Post Date: 2015-03-13 11:48:20 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 2152
Comments: 19
In a nine-hour surgery, a South African medical team successfully transplanted the penis of a dead donor to a young man without one. Three months later, they say, the recipient, who lost his penis because of complications from a ritual circumcision, has a totally functional sexual organ. That makes him the first successful recipient of a donated penis. News24 Live's Jerusha Sukhdeo-Raath did some live tweeting from Friday's press briefing on the historic surgery: Yes, you read that right: To get the approval of the donor's family, doctors had to fashion a pseudo-penis for him out of abdominal skin. That way he could be buried with something resembling a penis. [Read More: Lab grown penises are on the horizon, scientists say] It's no small thing to reattach any organ, and sexual organs have added psychological implications. If the function (both urinary and sexual) and appearance aren't just right, the recipient has to deal with the implications of having a troublesome foreign object where his penis should be. Even if everything is working physically, the psychological trauma can sometimes be too much to bear. That's what happened to the Chinese patient who could have been the first successful recipient: In 2006, 10 days after a physically successful surgery, the man asked doctors to remove his new organ. [The military has high hopes for face transplants] But the unnamed 21-year-old in Cape Town, who lost his penis three years ago, is delighted, according to his surgical team. Click for Full Text!
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
"We can rebuild him...we have the technology,"
Basic appearance and urinary function may be restored. Not nerve tissue. So sex won't have any pleasure. Children could only be conceived by using the technique they use to harvest sperm from a recent corpse. And it is still a transplant that will require anti-rejection drugs for life so it won't be attacked by the man's own immune system. To call this a success is overstating it a bit. It can never be a success in the way that a kidney or liver transplant is. I notice this transplant was needed because of...a botched circumcision.
Get out of town!
I am currently negotiating for a full body transplant. What good will my new 18 year old body be, -- if the nerves can't be connected? Let me know soon please, as the donor just died.
Sounds fishy to me also, Fred.
The end of the old line (used most often in regards Hillary) "I wouldn't fcck her with your dick."
Cases of post-mortem conception have occurred ever since human artificial insemination techniques were first developed, with sperm donated to a sperm bank being used following the death of the donor. While religious arguments have been brought against the process even under these circumstances, far more censure has arisen from a number of quarters with regards to invasive retrieval from fresh cadavers or patients either on life support or in a persistent vegetative state, particularly when the procedure is carried out without explicit consent from the donor. The first successful retrieval of sperm from a cadaver was reported in 1980, in a case involving a 30-year-old man who became brain dead following a motor vehicle accident and whose family requested sperm preservation.[2] The first successful conception using sperm retrieved post-mortem was reported in 1998, leading to a successful birth the following year.[3] Since 1980, a number of requests for the procedure have been made, with around one third approved and performed.[1] Gametes have been extracted through a variety of means, including removal of the epididymis, irrigation or aspiration of the vas deferens, and rectal probe electroejaculation.[3] Since the procedure is rarely performed, studies on the efficacy of the various methods have been fairly limited in scope. While medical literature recommends that extraction take place no later than 24 hours after death, motile sperm has been successfully obtained as late as 36 hours after death, generally regardless of the cause of death or method of extraction. Up to this limit, the procedure has a high success rate, with sperm retrieved in nearly 100% of cases, and motile sperm in 80–90%.[4] There is currently little precedent for successful insemination using sperm harvested after 36 hours. New technologies are being researched that could make this a routine reality, in turn creating new ethical dilemmas. [5] If the sperm is viable, fertilisation is generally achieved through intracytoplasmic sperm injection, a form of in vitro fertilisation. The success rate of in vitro fertilisation remains unchanged regardless of whether the sperm was retrieved from a living or dead donor.[4]
Not nerve tissue Are you sure of that? Don't they now have the ability to transplant fingers,toes,and other appendages that end up with full never function including feeling? They can obviously do transplants that have full blood flow and circulation,or there would be no transplants of any type.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
In South Africa,or an 18 year old adult. Would YOU go to modern day South Africa for ANY kind of surgery?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
They get botched here in the states as well. It isn't nearly so rare as you would think. Don't make me post those intactivist website dick pix (links) again.
They can reattach a severed limb from the same person with some success, almost never full nerve restoration. And keep in mind that peepee's are mostly fun because they have an insanely high density of nerve endings and connective tissue. No, I don't think a transplant has a chance in hell of more than just some fuzzy feelings, nothing like the original was capable of.
It's rare enough I never heard of them before a few days ago. Don't make me post those intactivist website dick pix (links) again. Nobody forced you to post them the first or second time. You posted the links because you wanted to.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
You may be right,but I am going to go out on a limb here and state that any guy that REALLY needed one is going to tell you that "fuzzy feelings" beat the HELL out of "no feeling at all and urinating out of a rubber drain tube." Besides,every journey starts with the first step. Look at how dangerous heart transplants were just a few years ago,and now they are practically done as out-patient treatment in strip malls.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I guarantee you some people went to look at them. We all have our little friend and think we know him well. But they all have their little secrets and oddities. I tend to think that women's junk has even greater variety than men's. Darwin keeps real busy below the waistline.
Heart transplants are still pretty rare. Many of them are heart addons, with the original heart left in place and the new heart being a helper heart. In the event of rejection or failure, sometimes the helper heart is removed and the original heart has recovered enough to carry the load. Heart transplants have a life expectancy of 15 years. And lots of people don't qualify. You see a lot more kidney/liver/lung/cornea transplants. These are the real transplant success stories.
Idiot. "Paralyzed men can be dads"
Excellent news for Meguro. Now he can have his transplanted in his ass... and he doesn't have to worry about the prejudice and bias nature of society or AIDS.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Yeah, Hillary would be in the same class as Helen Thomas
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Pics or it didn't happen.
#2. To: Willie Green, sneakypete (#0)
#3. To: TooConservative (#2)
Children could only be conceived by using the technique they use to harvest sperm from a recent corpse.
#4. To: TooConservative (#2)
--- Not nerve tissue. ---
#5. To: Fred Mertz, TooConservative (#3)
A botched circumcision shouln't have affected the testicles...
unless infection set-in and his whole crotch started to rot away...But bathing and changing your undies every day will usually prevent that from happening... that, and you have to remember to dry yourself thoroughly with a clean bath towel and maybe spray yourself occasionally with a little Cruex...
#6. To: Willie Green (#0)
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#3)
Get out of town!
Posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR) is a procedure in which spermatozoa are extracted from a man after he has been pronounced legally brain dead. There has been significant debate over the ethicality and legality of the procedure, and on the legal rights of the child and surviving parent if the gametes are used for impregnation.[1]
The rectal method is real nasty. Same method used to test bulls or collect semen from them for AI.
#8. To: TooConservative (#2)
Basic appearance and urinary function may be restored.
#9. To: TooConservative (#2)
I notice this transplant was needed because of...a botched circumcision.
#10. To: sneakypete (#9)
#11. To: sneakypete (#8)
(Edited)
Are you sure of that? Don't they now have the ability to transplant fingers,toes,and other appendages that end up with full never function including feeling?
#12. To: TooConservative (#10)
They get botched here in the states as well. It isn't nearly so rare as you would think.
#13. To: TooConservative (#11)
No, I don't think a transplant has a chance in hell of more than just some fuzzy feelings, nothing like the original was capable of.
#14. To: sneakypete (#12)
Nobody forced you to post them the first or second time. You posted the links because you wanted to.
#15. To: sneakypete (#13)
Look at how dangerous heart transplants were just a few years ago,and now they are practically done as out-patient treatment in strip malls.
#16. To: TooConservative (#2)
(Edited)
Not nerve tissue. So sex won't have any pleasure. Children could only be conceived by using the technique they use to harvest sperm from a recent corpse.
#17. To: Willie Green (#0)
Surgeons announce world’s first successful penis transplant
#18. To: Hank Rearden (#6)
" regards Hillary) "I wouldn't fcck her with your dick." "
#19. To: Willie Green (#0)
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