MiamiPlacenta wraps halved average time to first erection after prostatectomy.
At 3 months, 75% of wrapped men had erections sufficient for penetration, against 60% unwrapped.
Surgeons wrap the nerves in 4-by-6-centimetre dried amniotic sheets, which are packed with growth factors that promote healing.
It is one surgeon’s retrospective review, comparing 2,560 wrapped patients with 1,495 operated on before 2014.
Johns Hopkins’ Arthur Burnett says randomised trials are needed, and nobody else does this routinely.
How each outlet framed it
- New Scientist leans favorable
- quantifies 2560-surgery dataset (2014-2024), explains amniotic membrane's growth factors and immune proteins, documents decade-old origin
Sources: New Scientist