せっかくナニを付けてもらったのに。。。
世界初の男性器の移植に成功した中国の医療チームが、たった二週間で再びナニを切断することになってしまったとのことである。(なんて、もったいない。。。)
中国の44歳の男性はナニを激しく怪我してしまったため、脳死状態の22歳の男性から提供されたナニを、15時間もの大手術の末移植してもらったのだが、この男性及びその妻の激しい精神的な懸念により再び切断せざるをえなくなったというのである。
どうやら手術そのものは成功し、拒絶反応も見られず、排尿すらできなかったこの男性も排尿できるようになってはいたものの、(元々は移植を要求していた)妻の心理的な懸念と、勃起時のナニの形が決定的となり、再び切断する決断をしたらしい。。。(一体どんな形をしていたんだろう。。。)
たった二週間で切断してしまったために、性機能が回復したかどうかを判断するのは難しいとのことであるが、この手術が今後の医療には有益であることは間違いないようである。
とはいえ、昨今の様々なこの種のニュースを見るにつけ、くれぐれもナニの扱いには気をつけている今日この頃である。。。
(「ナニの扱い」関連)
「バイアグラのなかった頃」
「ラップトップ爆発(なんてするか。。。)」
「アレができなくて裁判沙汰」
(「ナニ」関連)
「ナニでぼやく アーカイブ」
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First penis transplant reversed after two weeks - Yahoo! News
Tue Sep 19, 8:41 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.
Dr Weilie Hu and surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the complex 15-hour surgery on a 44-year old man whose penis had been damaged in a traumatic accident.
The microsurgery to attach the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man, was successful but Hu and his team removed it two weeks later.
"Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Hu said in a report published online by the peer reviewed journal European Urology, without elaborating.
"This is the first reported case of penile transplantation in a human," Hu added.
Both the man and his wife had requested the surgery. He had been unable to have intercourse or urinate properly since the accident that occurred 8 months before the surgery was performed.
Ten days after the operation, which had been approved by the hospital's medical ethical committee, the recipient had been able to urinate.
There had been no signs of the 10-centimetre (4-inch) organ being rejected by the recipient's body. But Hu said more cases and longer observation are needed to determine whether sexual sensation and function can be restored.
"The patient finally decided to give up the treatment because of the wife's psychological rejection, as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis" Hu added.
In a commentary in the journal, Yoram Vardi, of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, said the successful surgery represents an additional step in contemporary medicine.
But he added that careful patient selection is required as well as thorough informed consent of the patient and his family.
"Satisfactory consideration of these issues must be taken into account so that this approach can be considered a serious therapeutic option in the future," Vardi added.
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