World’s first penis and scrotum transplant

Doctors in the US have performed the world’s first penis and scrotum transplant on a US military sergeant severely injured several years ago in an IED blast in Afghanistan.

The unnamed man is recovering well and expected to regain both urinary and sexual function, said Richard Redett, who led the transplant operation.

He told a press conference yesterday that the patient had undergone 14 hours of surgery under a specialist team at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in late March.