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They transplanted the fertile uterus of a deceased woman to a patient born without this organ and able to conceive a girl of almost a year. After the success of this intervention, a group of Brazilian doctors is ready to duplicate his work with two other women.
"All patients in this initial group have already been selected and have undergone in vitro fertilization," said the physician. Dani Ejzenberg told AFP on Thursday (7)
"There are good quality embryos stored and we are now waiting for compliant donors who perform transplants".
He and his fellow doctors must also ask and wait for approval.
Ejzenberg, a gynecologist at the University of São Paulo University's Faculty of Medicine Clinic Hospital, was part of the week team revealed the success of his experimental operation, held in September 2016.
This operation involved the tummy of a 45-year-old woman who died and died of a stroke that was transplanted into the body of a 32-year-old woman born without a uterus because of a rare syndrome, according to The Lancet Medical Journal.
Fertilized zygotes were implanted in the uterus for seven months. then after a cycle of drugs to suppress organ rejection. And on December 15, 2017, the girl is born
"She is a very happy child and the mother is also very satisfied with this great advance," said Ejzenberg
"On December 15, the baby will be one year old ", did he declare. Professor Luiz Carneiro, head of the transplant team, explained that he and his colleagues were proud to have made pregnancy possible through "As clerks, we are used to transplanting organs and we found that it was an opportunity to take a very different approach, in that we were generating life from that, "he said. .
Lack of donors.
Prior to trial, the only options available for women with uterine infertility were adoption or surrogacy services.
The first successful delivery after uterine transplantation of a living donor took place in 2013 in Sweden. Since then, 39 other people, including 11 have resulted in the birth of a baby, all through the intermediary of a living donor.
But there are many more women who need transplants than potential living donors. For this reason, medical teams from different countries have been trying to determine if it was possible to use the belly of deceased donors and the chances of successful fertilization.
Ten attempts were made in the United States, the Czech Republic and Turkey. before the success reported in Brazil
In this first pioneering case, the transplanted uterus in a 32-year-old woman was removed during a caesarean birth, which allowed the patient to stop take immunosuppressive drugs
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