First successful surgery surgeons transplant cancer patient’s penis. Transplant surgery after a 15 hour operation Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston United states.
Thomas Manning, aged 64, successfully underwent the transplant surgery after a 15 hour operation Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston United states.
First successful surgery surgeons transplant cancer patient’s penis.
The procedure is primarily intended for cancer patients and war veterans with various pelvic injuries.
Mr.Manning welcomed queries regarding the operation adding that he wanted to dismiss shame and stigma associated with genital anomalies.
Dr. Cetrulo said surgery cost at $50,000 to $75,000 while the organ donated by a deceased donor.
If all goes as planned, normal urination should be possible for Mr. Manning within a few weeks, and sexual function in weeks to months.
Mr.manning said “If I’m lucky, I get 75 percent of what I used to be,” he said.
“Before the surgery I was 10 percent. But they made no promises. That was part of the deal.”
The penis transplant, a procedure also known as a genitourinary reconstructive vascularized composite allograft, took 15 hours for the physicians to complete.
Physicians on said that he is doing well and that there are no signs of organ rejection, bleeding or infection.
The surgical team spent more than three and half years preparing for this breakthrough procedure.
It required the work of several different departments and specialists in the hospital.
Including plastic and reconstructive surgery, urology, psychiatry, infectious diseases, nursing and social work.
The hospital’s transplant center first considered performing this procedure in 2012.
After they successfully performed a hand transplant, another highly complex surgery.
First successful surgery surgeons transplant cancer patient’s penis.
The group worked closely with the New England Organ Bank to make it happen.
The hospital added that the donor’s family pleased to hear the surgery was successful.
But the reconstructive penises don’t always resemble the real thing and don’t contain any erectile tissue.
Which means a patient also requires a penis pump implant to maintain an erection during sexual activity.
