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A 21-year-old man in South Africa has received the world’s first successful penis transplant and accepts the organ as his own, doctors said on Friday.
The operation took a team of surgeons nine hours and has allowed the patient to become sexually active.
The man’s penis was amputated three years ago after a circumcision went wrong at a traditional initiation ceremony. The patient, who has not been named, received the new organ from a deceased donor on 11 December and has regained all functions.
Professor Andre van der Merwe, head of the urology division at Stellenbosch University, whose staff carried out the operation at Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, said the recipient is doing “extremely well” both physically and psychologically.
“The patient accepted the penis as his own,” he told the eNews Channel Africa (eNCA). “He told me in no uncertain terms that the fact it belonged to somebody else is completely out of his mind and he’s moved on with this as his own penis. That’s absolutely the way we want it.”
Van der Merwe indicated that doctors had ensured the donor and recipient were of the same race. “Cosmetically we’ve got a very good match for colour,” he added. “We obviously transplanted a good normal penis and the erections that the patient gets are very good.
“We repaired a small hole in his urethra, the pee pipe, last week so we could remove his catheter and just that induced an erection on the operating table. We were so surprised at that erection that he certainly is getting very good results for his transplant.”
Van der Merwe described the groundbreaking operation as “very, very difficult”. He told eNCA: “What we did was to manage the small blood vessels in the penis, which are really only a little bit more than a millimetre wide, to existing blood vessels in the abdomen that has come down, and we could connect that up.
“So many things could have gone wrong. Actually one of the blood vessels did clot up for a few hours. We could relieve the clot, thankfully.”
Immediately after the operation there was an “oozing” that led to bleeding, he continued. “We were dealing with infection and clot formation and bleeding. That was the most difficult thing initially.”
But the patient is “a very fit young man” and making “a good recovery”.
The operation took a team of surgeons nine hours and has allowed the patient to become sexually active.
The man’s penis was amputated three years ago after a circumcision went wrong at a traditional initiation ceremony. The patient, who has not been named, received the new organ from a deceased donor on 11 December and has regained all functions.
Professor Andre van der Merwe, head of the urology division at Stellenbosch University, whose staff carried out the operation at Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, said the recipient is doing “extremely well” both physically and psychologically.
“The patient accepted the penis as his own,” he told the eNews Channel Africa (eNCA). “He told me in no uncertain terms that the fact it belonged to somebody else is completely out of his mind and he’s moved on with this as his own penis. That’s absolutely the way we want it.”
Van der Merwe indicated that doctors had ensured the donor and recipient were of the same race. “Cosmetically we’ve got a very good match for colour,” he added. “We obviously transplanted a good normal penis and the erections that the patient gets are very good.
“We repaired a small hole in his urethra, the pee pipe, last week so we could remove his catheter and just that induced an erection on the operating table. We were so surprised at that erection that he certainly is getting very good results for his transplant.”
Van der Merwe described the groundbreaking operation as “very, very difficult”. He told eNCA: “What we did was to manage the small blood vessels in the penis, which are really only a little bit more than a millimetre wide, to existing blood vessels in the abdomen that has come down, and we could connect that up.
“So many things could have gone wrong. Actually one of the blood vessels did clot up for a few hours. We could relieve the clot, thankfully.”
Immediately after the operation there was an “oozing” that led to bleeding, he continued. “We were dealing with infection and clot formation and bleeding. That was the most difficult thing initially.”
But the patient is “a very fit young man” and making “a good recovery”.
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I'm sure the fact that it's twice the size of his original member has had nothing to do with his "acceptance" of it "as his own".
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Didn't Ron Jeremy die a couple of years ago? I'd have asked for his!
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I wonder if it feels like some else wankin you off?
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a circumcision went wrong at a traditional initiation ceremony.
You were only supposed to cut the bloody foreskin off, as Michael Caine never said. |
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they will be endless people want this op.
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I'm happy with my schlong.
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I carry an organ donor card, could be good news for any young man with aspirations of being a porn star in the future.
Not the near future i hope. |
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Hard to believe it's now 34 years since Surgical Penis Klinik released their Meat Processing Section EP.
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handy in the shower
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I bet he feels a right pr1ck.............
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Theres people on the racing forum wiv a spare 1 in their head...........
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he's ok but apparently his girlfriend has rejected it.
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new members only
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I had a elephants trunk transplanted. Girls were impressed but the downside was that it leapt out my trousers everytime I went past a bun shop!!!
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I asked a clinic if they could add an extra inch to mine, they told me to get lost, 10 inches is more than enough you greedy git
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Alternatively, a penis has just received the world's first successful man transplant.
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When I was a fit young man I had 8 inches & a wrinkle.........
Now I have 8 wrinkles & an inch. |
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Surely a penis transplant is really a body transplant. A guy who has lost the rest of his body has had a new donor body attached to his schlong.
In women the same logic applies to head transplants, so they say. |
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Does he have to swap his bed post notches for the other fellas?
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There's a new article stating he has used his new chap upon his partner.
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Is the partner male or female?
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