{"id":4143,"date":"2016-01-01T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:13:37","slug":"first-penis-implant-in-us-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4143","title":{"rendered":"First penis implant in US set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WASHINGTON, United States<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 Johns Hopkins University doctors are preparing for what would be the first US penis transplant, a procedure that could potentially help hundreds of wounded veterans. A Johns Hopkins spokeswoman confirmed a New York Times report that the first such operation was planned for a soldier who suffered genital injuries in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 12-hour operation would involve the stitching together of nerves and blood vessels and could restore urinary function and over time, the ability to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>Because the procedure would restore only the penis and not the testes, the patient would not be able to have biological children, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times, more than 1,367 soldiers suffered injury to their genitals between 2001 and 2013 in Iraq or Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Although the procedure is not required to save a life, doctors and Pentagon officials told the newspaper they believe it is worthwhile to deal with the psychological trauma suffered by the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The university has been authorized to perform 60 of the experimental surgeries, with organs coming from deceased males whose families have given permission.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a South African man received the world\u2019s first successful penis transplant and reported later he was to become a father. There was nothing preventing the South African patient from having children because his testicles, where sperm is produced, were not affected. <strong>(Associated Press) <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, United States \u2014 Johns Hopkins University doctors are preparing for what would be the first US penis transplant, a procedure that could potentially help hundreds of wounded veterans. A Johns Hopkins spokeswoman confirmed a New York Times report that the first such operation was planned for a soldier who suffered genital injuries in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,42,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}