But now, for the first time, 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. The surgeons had been planning such an intervention since 2013. 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 5 years of research and collaboration across multiple disciplines." A complex 14-hour procedure. The successful transplant was performed last month on a United States war veteran who lost his genital organs after the unexpected explosion of an improvised explosive device. The surgery, which lasted 14 hours, was performed by a large team of doctors, anesthetists, and nurses led by the director of plastic and…
