1.5 years after penis and scrotum transplant, injured veteran feels 'whole' again: 'It's the first time he's felt normal in a long time.'
That function includes the ability to have erections and orgasm, as well as urinate standing up .He is unable to produce sperm because surgeons did not transplant testicles. Any sperm generated from donated testes would be genetically related to the donor, not the transplant recipient.
The veteran is one of 1,367 male soldiers who sustained genital injuries from 2001 to 2013 in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a previous study in. Not all had the kind of trauma that would require a penile transplant, but many are left with significant wounds. "With the changes in body armor and the improvements in medical care in the field, IEDs blow off your legs and your genitalia, but you survive," Redett said.
There have been four other successful penile transplants reported worldwide. In 2016, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston helped a 64-year-old man who'd lost hisJohns Hopkins surgeons said the veteran has returned to school full-time and continues to live independently.
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