Friend of the patient said she was in her fifth month of pregnancy.

In March this year, the media announced first in the history of medicine successful penis transplant. But now carried out the surgery, the surgeon Andre van der Merwe told BBC that his patient would soon become a father.


a Friend of 21-year-old patient told the doctor that she is five months pregnant, and this is direct evidence that the transplant operation was successful.

the Surgeon noted that he was very happy the news of the pregnancy of the girl. According to Andre van der Merwe, he did not think the man will be infertile because he didn't have a problem with the testicles.

Now a group of surgeons that conducted the transplant, going to analyze the outcome of successful surgery to possibly repeat it in the future.

Recall, the patient lost the body three years ago due to complications after the procedure of circumcision. The transplant surgery itself was held in December. The operation carried out in South Africa by the joint efforts of scientists from Stellenbosch University and doctors of the hospital of Tygerberg. It lasted nine hours.