{"id":6377,"date":"2015-03-13T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:22:50","slug":"doctors-perform-the-worlds-first-successful-penis-transplant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/news\/doctors-perform-the-worlds-first-successful-penis-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Perform the World&#8217;s First Successful Penis Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Surgeons from Stellenbosch University and Cape Town\u2019s Tygerberg Hospital have performed the world\u2019s first successful penis transplant.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-hour operation was performed Dec. 11 on the 21-year-old recipient, who made a full recovery and regained all functions in the transplanted organ, the South African university said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The patient, whose identity wasn\u2019t disclosed, had his penis amputated three years ago in order to save his life when he developed complications after a traditional circumcision. There are an estimated 250 penile amputations each year in South Africa stemming from circumcisions, the university said.<\/p>\n<div data-view-uid=\"1|0_6_1_7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-03-13\/penis-transplant-a-world-first-south-african-surgeons-say\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Read the full article on the Bloomberg website.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"health-area":[],"how-we-work":[],"class_list":["post-6377","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"health-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/health-area?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"how-we-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/how-we-work?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}