The first penis transplant in the United States is set to take place within the next year and the recipient will be a young soldier injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. Get the story…
CBSNews.com says that surgeons from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine — which has an active hand and face transplant program — say the recipient of the first penis transplant in the United States will be a young soldier injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.
Dr. Damon Cooney, assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery and co-clinical director of the penile transplant program at Johns Hopkins, told CBS News:
“We want to continue to expand the field into areas that are not easy to reconstruct using conventional methods. The more and more interactions we’ve had with the military, the more we came to find out that although people aren’t talking about it much, genital injuries are a much bigger problem for a lot of people.”
If you’re wondering where the “donated” penis will come from, it will come from “a deceased donor.”
CBS also reports that “Doctors say they expect it to start functioning in matter of months — meaning the development of urinary function, sensation, and eventually the ability to have sex.”
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