Penis Transplant in the Future?
 

Fifty or sixty years from now, medical science would surely be more advanced, what do you think? Can a penis-transplant be possible?

Intriguing scenario.

I do not think it is possible. Still, it's a good scenario- we can call the doctors performing the transplant as "PENISIOLOGISTS".

I doubt if a lot of guys would avail of it, if ever it becomes possible. However, the few who would are those willing to spend millions of dollars for it. Maybe I would?

Possible, but quite farfetched.

Come to think of it, what about the balls?

The testicles probably would be left alone, unless the patient wants them out too.

I mean, wants them exchanged too.

If ever, it would be perfected (the procedure) by a big team, not by a solo individual.

Transplant
 

Yes penile transplant is on it's way, remember john bobbit. They reattached his and that was intriguing for some urologists. They have already transplanted penis's in europe !!

why bother
 

i'm puny & i'm proud!

FYI Guys....

LONDON — Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal — European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology.

The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that “an unfortunate traumatic accident” left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally.

Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the complex 15-hour microsurgery to attach the penis in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man. The operation was successful but Hu and his team removed the transplant two weeks later.

“There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife” for a transplant, and the operation “was discussed again and again” and approved by the hospital’s ethics committee, Hu wrote in the peer reviewed journal European Urology. The patient had been unable to have intercourse or urinate properly since the accident that occurred 8 months before the surgery was performed.

“Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off,” Hu said in the report which was published online, without elaborating.

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

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-centimeter (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.

Similar to hand, face transplants
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.

Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involves standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves.