First full penis and scrotum transplant
Doctors of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, on March 26, performed the first-ever full penis and scrotum transplant on a military veteran who was injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. The hospital announced that it took 14 hours to complete the surgery and it was performed by a team of nine plastic surgeons and two urological surgeons. The penis, scrotum and partial abdominal wall were from a deceased donor. The doctors did not transplant the donor’s testicles to prevent genetic material to be passed on from the donor which the hospital believes is unethical.
