Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a 15-hour procedure last week. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor.
The New York Times first reported the transplant Monday.
Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, who helped lead the surgical team, tells the newspaper that normal urination should be possible for the 64-year-old Manning in a few weeks, with sexual function possible in weeks to months.
The Times reports most of Manning’s penis was removed during his battle with penile cancer.
The world’s first penis transplant was performed at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa in December 2014.
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4 comments:
Looks to me like he'll have a hard life from here on out.
"A man in China received a penis transplant in 2005. That operation also appeared to be successful, but doctors said the man asked them to remove his new penis two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by him and his wife."
Hmmm. I imagine that I could live with a heart or kidney from a deceased donor, but a penis? Every time I'd use it I'd wonder where it had been before.
Was it circumcised?
Maybe he just imagined the transplant.
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