article_snippet: A 21-year-old man has undergone the world's first successful penis transplant.
article_snippet: A 21-year-old man has become the first person in the world to undergo a successful penis transplant, in a nine hour operation at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, Tygerberg Hospital South Africa .
article_snippet: The 'ground-breaking' operation was carried out by surgeons from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, Tygerberg Hospital South Africa, using a penis donated from a deceased person.
article_snippet: Nine more patients will now receive penile transplants.
article_snippet: It was a privilege to be part of this first successful penis transplant in the world.'
article_snippet: As part of the procedure, doctors transplanted a new penis, donated by a deceased man.
article_snippet: the procedure has allowed a deceased man to become sexually active again.
article_snippet: The picture shows how the nerves of a penis amputated were joined to a deceased man's genital region .
article_snippet: a deceased man added that finding a donor organ was one of the main challenges to the procedures, and called the man who donated a deceased man penis, and a deceased man family, 'heroes'.
article_snippet: the procedure was performed as part of a pilot study to develop a penile transplant procedure that could be performed in a typical South African hospital.
article_snippet: The planning and preparation for a pilot study to develop a penile transplant procedure that could be performed in a typical South African hospital started in 2010.
article_snippet: Image shows the nerves in the donated penis, which were joined to a deceased man's groin area.
article_snippet: Professor Van der Mewe said the procedure could eventually also be extended to men who have lost men who have lost their penises from penile cancer penises from penile cancer or as a last-resort treatment for severe erectile dysfunction due to the side effects from medication.
highlights_snippet: The penis was donated to the hospital by a deceased organ donor .
  