{"id":219319,"date":"2025-08-03T00:34:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/first-ever-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-makes-history-at-johns-hopkins"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:34:45","slug":"first-ever-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-makes-history-at-johns-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/first-ever-penis-and-scrotum-transplant-makes-history-at-johns-hopkins","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Penis and Scrotum Transplant Makes History at Johns Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NwHxIhP7zTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Surgeons at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have performed the world\u2019s first total penis and scrotum transplant.<\/p>\n<p>The patient suffered a devastating injury several years ago from an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan. He is now recovering at the hospital after the 14-hour procedure in late March, which repaired his abdominal wall, gave him a new scrotum and attached a donor penis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are optimistic he will regain near-normal urinary and sexual functions,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/profiles\/results\/directory\/profile\/7041285\/wei-ping-lee\">W. P. Andrew Lee<\/a>, director of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeons at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have performed the world\u2019s first total penis and scrotum transplant. The patient suffered a devastating injury several years ago from an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan. He is now recovering at the hospital after the 14-hour procedure in late March, which repaired his abdominal wall, gave him [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219319","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=219319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}