First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:40 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.

Dr Weilie Hu and surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the complex 15-hour surgery on a 44-year old man whose penis had been damaged in a traumatic accident.

The microsurgery to attach the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man, was successful but Hu and his team removed it two weeks later.

"Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Hu said in a report published online by the peer reviewed journal European Urology, without elaborating.

"This is the first reported case of penile transplantation in a human," Hu added.

Both the man and his wife had requested the surgery. He had been unable to have intercourse or urinate properly since the accident that occurred 8 months before the surgery was performed.

Ten days after the operation, which had been approved by the hospital's medical ethical committee, the recipient had been able to urinate.

There had been no signs of the 10-centimetre (4-inch) organ being rejected by the recipient's body. But Hu said more cases and longer observation are needed to determine whether sexual sensation and function can be restored.

"The patient finally decided to give up the treatment because of the wife's psychological rejection, as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis" Hu added.

In a commentary in the journal, Yoram Vardi, of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, said the successful surgery represents an additional step in contemporary medicine.

But he added that careful patient selection is required as well as thorough informed consent of the patient and his family.

"Satisfactory consideration of these issues must be taken into account so that this approach can be considered a serious therapeutic option in the future," Vardi added.

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wow, I wonder if Ron Jeremy is a Donor?

was the doner "brain dead" before or after the transplant?
wouldnt a penis transplant also be known as a male-brain transplant?
what "musicain" wants to play on a 4 inch organ?!?
did the RIAA set up organ donations? Everyone gets paid but the doner...

Id rather lose my ability to have sex then my ability to play music (and Im better at sex then playin guitar)

I'm traumatized just reading about it.

Poor brain dead guy. I wonder if they gave his penis back after the guy got it cut off

So...let me get this straight the wife would rather her husband have no penis rather than the four-inch penis of a brain dead 22 year old? Damn...talk about picky!

I wonder if the husband plays guitar?

Im writing a will right now that states ...if i ever go brain dead "Do Not Take My Penis!" i wonder if the penis really is a second brain, and the other dudes penis started talking to the guy and his wife.....that would be trippy!

Rambam Medical Center???

when i die, i request someone take my penis, and carry on its legend...

I think the wife is screwin the ups guy and messin with the husbands mind

ah heck..she probally liked the strap on better anyway

no dought or her girl freind