NBC News
by Maggie Fox
Apr.23.2018
“When I first woke up, I felt finally more normal… a level of confidence as well. Confidence… like finally I’m okay now.”
A veteran badly injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan is recovering from the first-ever transplant of a penis and scrotum, doctors said Monday.
Doctors perform a penis transplant on an injured Afghanistan veteran at Johns Hopkins University.Johns Hopkins Medicine
The soldier lost both legs above the knee, his penis and the area around it when the IED — improvised explosive device — blasted him.
But thanks to a donor and a team of transplant specialists who have been rehearsing for five years, the patient should recover near complete function of his penis, the doctors said.
According to a 2017 report in the Journal of Urology, more than 1,300 male veterans had suffered genital injuries sustained during action from 2001 to 2013 in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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