We expect this patient to regain full function, with regards to both urinary function as well as sexual function. Dr. Gerald Brandacher, lead doctor on the surgical team, says there are no longer limitations to transplanting body parts. It's a very sensitive and special consent process, where the organ procurement coordinators approach the individual donor family and ask for this specific gift. And we have shared the military background [of] our recipient with the donor family. And I was always struck that never a patient refers to the transplant as a graft.

Source: CBC News April 26, 2018 21:41 UTC