{"id":127061,"date":"2021-09-01T17:47:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/worlds-first-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-is-fully-functional-over-one-year-on"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:47:24","slug":"worlds-first-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-is-fully-functional-over-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/worlds-first-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-is-fully-functional-over-one-year-on","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Penis And Scrotum Transplant Is Fully Functional Over One Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-is-fully-functional-over-one-year-on2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over a year since the history-making operation, the recipient of the world\u2019s first total penis and scrotum transplant \u2013 an injured veteran of the US Armed Forces \u2013 is \u201cfeeling whole\u201d again and recovering well, doctors report in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc1907956\">case note on the pioneering procedure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who remains anonymous, was on patrol with his squad in Afghanistan when Taliban fighters ambushed them. As he went to give first aid to another soldier, he stepped on an improvised explosive device hidden on the road. In an instant, the blast took away much of the lower half of his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember everything froze and I was upside down,\u201d the man told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614501\/meet-the-wounded-veteran-who-got-a-penis-transplant\/\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>. \u201cI remember thinking a quick thought: \u2018This isn\u2019t good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year since the history-making operation, the recipient of the world\u2019s first total penis and scrotum transplant \u2013 an injured veteran of the US Armed Forces \u2013 is \u201cfeeling whole\u201d again and recovering well, doctors report in a case note on the pioneering procedure. The man, who remains anonymous, was on patrol with his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}