Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital performed the first U.S. penis transplant, they said Monday, calling it a "landmark procedure." Thomas Manning, 64, is recovering well after the 15-hour procedure performed by a team of over 50 surgeons, doctors and nurses, this month, according to the hospital. Manning, of Halifax, Massachusetts, had his penis amputated after he was diagnosed with penile cancer in 2012. The procedure, also described by the doctors as a "surgical milestone," is called a gentitourinary vascularized composite allograft, or GUVCA. It involves "surgically grafting the complex microscopic vascular and neural structures of a donor organ onto the comparable structures of the recipient." Put another way, surgeons connected the intricate vascular and nerve structures of a donor penis with those of the 64-year-old transplant recipient. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/16/health/first-u-s-penis-transplant/
A successful strapadictomy! But they say nothing about the donor, though the impression given is that the donor was not dead, which is intriguing..... And what is all this about not knowing who the father of any future child would be? They haven't gone for a full meat-and-two-veg transplant, have they? If it's just a new knob, what's the issue?
Note they say "ethical issues" about fatherhood, not biological. Presumably there are religious dickheads who do not think the biological reality is relevant.
But, given that restoration of sexual function is a goal, on that argument it would mean this chap's wife would be committing adultery, surely? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I dunno. Some people........ P.S. The surgeon's name is Dicken Ko. Presumably the "ck" in his surname is silent.
