News: First Successful Schlong Transplant Leads to Pyschological Problems in Patient

Schlong

From The Australian News

Penis on again, off again

LONDON: Chinese surgeons who performed the world’s first penis transplant had to remove the new organ after the recipient developed severe psychological problems.

Doctors say the operation was a surgical success but psychological issues suffered by the man and his wife meant the donated organ had to be removed after two weeks.

The man had the surgery after his own organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year, leaving him with a 1cm stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.

“His quality of life was affected severely,” The Guardian quoted Weilie Hu, a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital, as saying.

Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a younger, brain-dead man agreed to donate their son’s organ.

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