A 64-year-old man, who became the first person in the US to undergo a successful penis transplant, is recovering well, doctors said.
Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, had his penis amputated in 2012 when he was diagnosed with penile cancer.
He recently underwent a 15-hour surgery at Massachusetts General hospital in Boston during which a penis provided by a donor was attached
Curtis Cetrulo, who led the surgical team, said he was ?cautiously optimistic? about the $75,000 (?52,164) operation, but added that it was ?uncharted waters? for the hospital.
Manning is not the first in the world to have a penis transplant. In 2006, surgeons at Guangzhou general hospital in China performed a transplant operation on a 44-year-old man who was left with a 1cm-long stump after an accident. In a 15-hour operation, he received a 10cm-long donor penis from brain-dead man in his 20s.
The operation went smoothly, but two weeks later the recipient asked surgeons to cut it off again, due to what Dr Weilie Hu, a surgeon on the team, called ?a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife?. On inspection, the transplanted organ had not been rejected, at least biologically.
Last year, doctors in South Africa reported a more successful outcome for a 21-year-old man who had a penis transplant after his own developed gangrene following a botched circumcision. The man had not only accepted the organ but subsequently got his girlfriend pregnant.
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