[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Penis transplant a 'psychological failure'

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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:46:24 +0200

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Penis transplant a 'psychological failure'
Ian Sample, London

September 19, 2006
CHINESE surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man
whose organ was damaged in an accident this year. The incident left the man
with a one-centimetre-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have
sexual intercourse. "His quality of life was affected severely," said Dr Weilie
Hu, a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital.
Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a new penis to the 44-year-old after the
parents of a brain-dead man agreed to donate their son's organ.

The procedure represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required
complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels.

Doctors have previously succeeded in reuniting men with their sexual organs
after traumatic accidents or attacks, but the Guangzhou operation is the first
in which a donor penis has successfully been attached.

Although the operation was a success, surgeons had to remove the penis two
weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and
his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An
examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first face
transplant this year, said psychological factors were a serious issue for
patients receiving "allografts", or organs from donors.

"Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show it is not easy to
use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a
mirror to see a dead person's face," he wrote. "Clearly, in the Chinese case,
the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the
recipient's wife and raised many questions."

In 2001, surgeons amputated the world's first transplanted hand from Clint
Hallam, a 50-year-old New Zealander, who said he wanted the "hideous and
withered" hand removed because he had become "mentally detached" from it.

Andrew George, a transplant expert at Imperial College, London, said: "Doing a
penis transplant should be no more complex than anything else. But it takes
time for nerve sensations to kick in and it's not clear whether the patient
would ever be able to have sex with it.

"The question is whether it's right to be doing a transplant for what may be
seen as cosmetic reasons."

GUARDIAN

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