Man (well really his wife) rejects first penis transplant

[BJ_M]

Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse. "His quality of life was affected severely," said Dr Weilie Hu, a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital.

Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man half his age agreed to donate their son's organ.

The procedure, described in a case study due to appear in the journal European Urology next month, represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels.

The surgical team claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally.

Doctors have previously succeeded in reuniting men with their sexual organs after traumatic accidents or attacks, but the Guangzhou operation is the first in which a donor penis has successfully been attached to another man.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first face transplant on a woman who had been attacked by a dog this year, said psychological factors were a serious issue for many patients receiving certain "allografts", or organs from donors. "Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person's face," he wrote in the journal. "Clearly, in the Chinese case the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the recipient's wife and raised many questions."

In 2001, surgeons were forced to amputate the world's first transplanted hand from Clint Hallam, a 50-year-old New Zealander, who said he wanted the "hideous and withered" hand removed because he had become "mentally detached" from it. The original transplant was conducted by Prof Dubernard's team at the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyons, who have since performed the world's first double arm transplant.

Andrew George, a transplant expert at Imperial College, London, said: "Doing a penis transplant should be no more complex than anything else. But it takes time for nerve sensations to kick in and it's not clear whether the patient would ever be able to have sex with it. The question is whether it's right to be doing a transplant for what may be seen as cosmetic reasons."

[Supreme2k]

People are stupid.

[lordsmurf]

That article is horribly written.

"Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first face transplant on a woman who had been attacked by a dog this year, said psychological factors were a serious issue for many patients receiving certain "allografts", or organs from donors."

Worst sentence I've seen in years.

"by a dog this year" .... tell me that's not confusing... the transplant happened the year, not the dog attack.

[zzyzzx]

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

I am also thinking that there has to be more to this, or something lost in the translation.

[b1tchm4gn3t]

yeah, IM SURE she doesnt reject a vibe or dildo

[zzyzzx]

I'm also curious about the accident that damaged it. Sounds like something that belongs on American's Funniest Home Videos

[Faustus]

Well okay then... maybe this will be useful info someday. In case I decide to get intimate with a wood chipper or something.

[SquirrelDip]

Well okay then... maybe this will be useful info someday. In case I decide to get intimate with a wood chipper or something.

'Yer gettin' me excited... What would be the make of that wood chipper???

[BJ_M]

Another Wood Chipper Death

http://www.landscapeonline.com/research/article/6084

[Noahtuck]

Cobra should be comming along anytime now to lock this thread :P

[Craig Tucker]

Official cause of death.

Total Body Fragmentation.

that cant be good

[BJ_M]

not really much worse than 1/2 body Fragmentation.

[träskmannen]

I suppose defrag won't help...

[Super Warrior]

I suppose defrag won't help...

Well everyone knows ya gotta do a Full-body scan first to correct the file system erro...er, psysical errors on the body, BEFORE you do a Defrag.



(Yup that was my bad Comp-related joke)

[Super Warrior]

People are stupid.

On the case of the person with the face transplant, who was uncomfortable with how it looked...

....WHY could'nt that person just under-go some kind of plastic surgery to make the face look just like her original one? Also getting rid of any scars. This could'nt possibley be any more expensive or risky than the actual transplant itself, and would help ALOT psychologically to have "Her face" back

As for the guy with the transplant penis....hey its better than having NOTHING at all. What sane man would choose to have an otherwise successful implant removed?

[ViRaL1]

Sounds like the transplantee should have rejected the wife.

[pantsonfire]

So I know it isn't funny what happened, but the way certain facts were worded made me laugh. I know I'm an awful person. LOL.

[AlecWest]

This reminds me of a "pickle slicer joke" I won't repeat, hehe. BTW, since I work graveyard shift, I always miss the witty comments of Leno, Letterman, etc., to news events like this one. If anyone hears a Leno or Letterman comment, please pass it on.

So technically, this was a "successful" surgery from a physical standpoint. It makes me wonder what this will lead to. There are probably a number of plastic surgeons that will think of this procedure as a potential new cash-cow ... and one insurance companies might reimburse them for. Men with small Johnsons might line up for "size enhancement" surgery, under the guise of some medical necessity to justify insurance payment. Cadavers of well-endowed men might be in high demand by such surgeons.

Hmmm ... wonder if they'll charge by the inch or by the pound (pun not intended), hehe.

[ViRaL1]

This reminds me of a "pickle slicer joke" I won't repeat, hehe.

I love that one.

This just goes to show that some women are never satisfied.

[FulciLives]

How the hell does a wood chipper thing pull you in?

I mean did they fall in or what?

I don't get it.

Maybe death by wood chipper will be used in the next EVIL DEAD movie since the only way to kill one of them demon possessed zombies is by "total body dismemberment" and you can't get more that than "Total Body Fragmentation"

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gadgetguy]

How the hell does a wood chipper thing pull you in?...

One autumn I worked at a Christmas tree farm and they had a wood chipper. Those things are designed to grab the tree limb and pull it in. One of my co-workers was wearing a watch and the limb he was putting in snagged the wristband. It started to pull his arm in and he couldn't get loose. Fortunately it was a cheap plastic band and broke before his hand actually got pulled in, but it was pretty close. Kind of reinforced the "Don't wear jewelry while operating machinery" rule.

[FulciLives]

How the hell does a wood chipper thing pull you in?...

One autumn I worked at a Christmas tree farm and they had a wood chipper. Those things are designed to grab the tree limb and pull it in. One of my co-workers was wearing a watch and the limb he was putting in snagged the wristband. It started to pull his arm in and he couldn't get loose. Fortunately it was a cheap plastic band and broke before his hand actually got pulled in, but it was pretty close. Kind of reinforced the "Don't wear jewelry while operating machinery" rule.

Reminds me of the Arsino Hall episode in AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON where he gets his suit/business tie stuck in the garbage disposal unit in the kitchen sink and it starts to pull him in and choke him.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman