Surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina
CNN) -- In what is being heralded as a "first-ever procedure," surgeons removed a healthy kidney through a donor's vagina, the Johns Hopkins Medical Center has announced.
Jennifer Gilbert, center, received a kidney from Kimberly Johnson, at right in green.
Although the procedure has been previously done to extract cancerous and nonfunctioning kidneys that threatened a patient's health, the January 29 surgery was the first time it was done for donation purposes, the center said in a news release issued Monday.
"The kidney was successfully removed and transplanted into the donor's niece, and both patients are doing fine," Dr. Robert Montgomery, chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins, said in the release.
The surgery is considered less invasive and could pave the way for an increase in organ donations, it added.
"Removing the kidney through a natural opening should hasten the patient's recovery and provide a better cosmetic result," Montgomery said.
He told CNN on Tuesday, "We want to make it easier for people to donate, to have less impact on their lives, [be] in hospital a shorter amount of time and get back to their lives quicker."
The woman was chosen to be the first donor to undergo the procedure because a previous hysterectomy enabled doctors to operate without a uterus obstructing their efforts, he added.
The three-hour procedure typically allows the donor to return home within 24 hours.
The more traditional surgery requires a 5- to 6-inch incision through the abdominal wall and generally is followed by two or three days of hospitalization.
"If you asked our patient, she said it was like getting a tooth removed. She was walking that night and left the next day," Montgomery said.
The procedure is done by inserting "wand-like cameras and tools" through small incisions in the abdomen and navel.
Doctors then insert a hollow tube through the vagina with a bag at the end.
Once the kidney is cut loose, surgeons use video from the cameras to guide them as they maneuver the bag around the organ, place it in the tube and pull it out through the vaginal opening, Montgomery said.
A kidney weighs approximately one pound and is roughly the size of a clenched hand.
In an effort to ensure a more sterile procedure, the vagina is treated with Betadine, a sterilizing solvent commonly applied during surgery.
But some physicians wonder how clean the procedure can actually be.
"It's good to take such [sterilization] measures," said Dr. Jihad Kaouk, director of laparoscopic and robotic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the tube touched the vagina. And the bag touched the tube. And the bag touched the kidney"
He added, "delivering a kidney from the vagina, which is not sterile -- is it a potential risk or a real risk? We'll find out now."
Kaouk also expressed concern over the quality of the kidney once it has been squeezed into a tube.
"The concept of minimizing incisions and decreasing pain after surgery is always a good idea, but we should always check at what price," he said
It might be like having a tooth pulled. THROUGH YOUR VAGINA!!!!!
I promise, I will never ask any of you to do this for me. And I don't think I would want it if you did. And I promise, with God as my witness, you will never get anything from my vagina!
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Well, I give you this poor man who, I'm sure would trade a toothache, any day.
Treasured tools eaten by boat propeller
By ROGER M. BALANZA
A month after a tragic shoreline incident, Birgilio Castillo (not his real name) is spending Christmas without a penis and half his balls.
Castillo of General Santos City in Southern Philippines has been object of neighborhood pity—and naughty jokes—after landing in the headlines of local papers in November when he lost his treasured possessions to his own motorized canoe’s propeller.
Castillo, a fisherman, had just arrived at their village with a nephew after an overnight fishing trip, and was pushing the boat–with engine running— to shore in waist deep water when the propeller tangled with his shortpant.
The propeller swallowed part of the pant together with Castillo’s penis and half his balls.
Neighbors who witnessed the early morning decapitation brought the bloodied Castillo to the hospital where doctors were forced to cut off the badly-mangled tools.
Castillo’s father mourned the loss but was grateful the propellers left the boy one of his balls. Doctors told me my son could have died if it was a total demolition, he told local media without explaining why losing both penis and balls in one sweep could lead to instant death.
The unmarried Castillo has recovered but has holed up in their seaside house since the accident that continues to be widely talked in his fishing village.
The father has advised the young man to stay home as naughty jokes about his manliness is always at the center of lively discussions when neighbors gather.
Now, let us not ever discuss, mutilating genitals again. K?
lyvmm&b&c-ish!
Let me just say this: ew!
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