World's first ever penis and scrotum transplant carried out by US doctors

The world’s first complete transplant of a penis and scrotum has been carried out successfully by a team of US doctors.

The group of surgeons performed the transplant on a military sergeant severely injured in Afghanistan.

A team of nine plastic surgeons and two urological surgeons operated on the veteran, who has not been named, for 14 hours on March 26.

The team used a penis, scrotum and partial abdominal wall transplanted from a deceased donor to complete the surgery.

They said the soldier should be able to regain sexual function following the transplant, which was carried out at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

It is not the world’s first penis transplant – that was carried out in 2014 in South Africa – and nor is it the first in the US. That was in 2016 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The soldier said in a statement: "When I first woke up, I felt finally more normal like finally I'm okay now."