May 17, 2016.
According to New York Times, an American, who had to undergo a penile transplant, following cancer, agreed to be transplanted to a new sex and the operation seems to have worked.
The patient will be able to urinate and regain sexual activity
Doctors want to be careful, but it looks like the first penis transplant in the United States has worked. More than a week after the operation, which lasted 15 hours, surgeons deemed it a success. ” If everything goes as planned, Thomas Manning will be able to urinate normally in a few weeks and have sexual activity within a few months », Declared the surgeon at the head of the medical team, in the New York Times.
If this is a first in the United States, another patient, in South Africa, had before him benefited from such a transplant in 2014. He is now a dad. For American scientists, this achievement opens up new perspectives, especially for all soldiers who have been injured in the genitals during foreign operations in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Psychologically accept the transplant
But having a penis transplant is not as trivial as having a kidney transplant. In China, in 2006, a man who had had his sex transplanted asked, two weeks later, that it be removed because it was so difficult for him to accept a foreign organ. When you touch such an intimate and personal area, you can understand that not all patients feel ready to accept an operation..
The fact remains that such a success must be recognized and applauded. Other transplants will have to be done, however, before offering them to the soldiers. Indeed, the US government ” does not want veterans to be subjected to experimental procedures “And that they serve” of guinea pigs after having already sacrificed so much », Made a point of clarifying the New York Times.
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