First penis transplant in the U.S. planned to help wounded soldiers
- 9 years ago
BALTIMORE — Surgeons at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are hoping to within a year perform the first penis transplant in the United States on a young soldier injured by a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported.
The surgery is experimental, and doctors at Johns Hopkins have been given permission to perform 60 transplants.
According to U.S. Department of Defense Trauma Registry figures cited by the New York Times, as many as 1,367 soldiers suffered wounds to the genitals in Iraq and Afghanistan after being injured by IEDs between 2001 and 2013. Some lost all or part of their penises and/or testicles.
In the first penis transplant in the U.S., a the penis of a recently deceased donor will be removed and carefully dissected to keep its blood vessels, nerves and connecting structures intact.
Then surgeons will then connect the nerves, veins and arteries of the donor's penis to the recipient's correlating tissue and stitch them together under a microscope.
The recipient's nerves will grow into the transplant at a rate of about one inch per month, which means it could take several months for the patient to recover sexual function.
If however the transplant fails, the donor's penis will be removed, leaving the recipient in the same condition as before the surgery.
Among the risks are bleeding and infection. The patient will also have to take anti-rejection medicines for all his life, which could increase his chances of developing cancer.
Only two other penis transplants have been performed: a failed one in China in 2006 and a successful one in South Africa in 2014.
The estimated cost of the procedure is $200,000 to $400,000 per operation.
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The surgery is experimental, and doctors at Johns Hopkins have been given permission to perform 60 transplants.
According to U.S. Department of Defense Trauma Registry figures cited by the New York Times, as many as 1,367 soldiers suffered wounds to the genitals in Iraq and Afghanistan after being injured by IEDs between 2001 and 2013. Some lost all or part of their penises and/or testicles.
In the first penis transplant in the U.S., a the penis of a recently deceased donor will be removed and carefully dissected to keep its blood vessels, nerves and connecting structures intact.
Then surgeons will then connect the nerves, veins and arteries of the donor's penis to the recipient's correlating tissue and stitch them together under a microscope.
The recipient's nerves will grow into the transplant at a rate of about one inch per month, which means it could take several months for the patient to recover sexual function.
If however the transplant fails, the donor's penis will be removed, leaving the recipient in the same condition as before the surgery.
Among the risks are bleeding and infection. The patient will also have to take anti-rejection medicines for all his life, which could increase his chances of developing cancer.
Only two other penis transplants have been performed: a failed one in China in 2006 and a successful one in South Africa in 2014.
The estimated cost of the procedure is $200,000 to $400,000 per operation.
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