World's first penis and scrotum transplant complete
Surgeons have now performed the world's first total penis and scrotum transplant, which they hope will restore urinary and sexual function to the recipient.
Until last year, only two successful penile transplants had been completed. In those procedures, only the penis itself was transplanted. Now a team of surgeons from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD, has managed to transplant the penis and the scrotum from a deceased donor to a recipient who had lost his genital organs during armed service.
In the telebriefing statement of the institution's genitourinary program, the program's clinical director, Dr. Rick Redett, calls the procedure "the culmination of more than five years of research and collaboration across multiple disciplines."
Source Medical News Today
