After 14 hours of surgery, a veteran of the US Armed Forces managed to regain his genitals. It was the most complete penile transplant in the world and was performed in hospital Johns Hopkins in late March, as announced today the hospital. Anonymous patient walks and can leave the hospital this week.
This was the fourth successful penile transplant in the world so far, she told a press conference Richard Redett, clinical director of Johns Hopkins's gene transplant program.
But it is the first time that doctors managed to transplant such a large area of the body, including a region of the lower abdomen, the entire penis and the testicles, from a dying donor. Doctors say they will soon know if the patient can urinate, but recovery will last longer, perhaps about six months.
BREAKING NEWS: @HopkinsMedicine performs the first total penis and scrotum #transplant in the world. https://t.co/HO7uwbOXta pic.twitter.com/BbWP931YFc
- Hopkins Med News (@HopkinsMedNews) April 23, 2018
The patient's legs, penis, testicles and lower abdomen virtually disappeared from an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, according to The New York Times.
Victims of such attacks are usually young - just 24 years old on average, according to a report published by the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and there are many of them: at least 1.378 men in the armed forces returned home with genital injuries from 2001 to 2013, states in the report.
The March surgery on the veteran of the USA ξεκίνησε από το 2013. Αυτό οφείλεται εν μέρει στην μακρά τεχνική προετοιμασία, η οποία περιελάμβανε ανατομές και δοκιμαστικές χειρουργικές επεμfundamentals in corpses. Matching the donor and recipient was also a bit more complicated than for an organ like a kidney, according to the press release: In addition to matching the blood type of donors and recipients, doctors also matched their ages and skin tone. And because the recipient had rare blood, there were fewer potential donors.
The team decided earlier not to transplant the testicles. Damon Cooney, a professor of plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said that with the testicles, the recipient of the transplant could have acquired a child who would have the donor DNA.
"We just thought there were a lot of unanswered ethical questions about this type of transplant," Cooney said.
For surgery, 11 surgeons were needed for 14 hours, and so far, the patient responds well.
"I finally felt more normal."
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