Penis transplant patient to become a father

Doctor behind world's first successful operation of its kind announces man's partner is pregnant less than a year after surgery

A South African man who had the world's first successful penis transplant is to become a father less than a year after the breakthrough surgery.

Prof Andri(C) van der Merwe, who led the operating team, announced that the 21-year-old's girlfriend was pregnant. "He's definitely smiling big," the urologist, based at Stellenbosch University, said on Friday. "He's proud. He's also a little bit shy."