Brazil is the only country in the world to have a baby born in the uterus transplanted from a dead donor

RIO – A girl from São Paulo about to be 1 year old is the first child in the world born of a mother who has received a uterus from a deceased donor. The success, still unique on the planet, was realized last year by a team from the Clinic Hospital of the University of São Paulo. It is now the subject of an official report in an article published yesterday in the prestigious medical scientific journal "The Lancet".

Victim of the Rokitansky Syndrome Appeal, Human Resources Analyst X – who asked not to be identified – discovered that she was born without a uterus at age 25, after having met the current husband and father of the child.

Consistent, she was now 34 years old and thought she never had children naturally. Opinion that began to change in 2014 when she discovered through a women's support group facing the problem of successful uterine transplants in Sweden. Despite this, X did not think that he could profit from the experimental procedure.

How transplantation allowed pregnancy

A compatible deceased donor was found and his uterus was removed during a procedure of about an hour and a half

The patient suffered badisted treatment in which eggs were harvested and then fertilized

The recipient recovered from the operation, required to take immunosuppressants and other medications so as not to reject the uterus and avoid infections

The organ was rapidly grafted onto the recipient during a connection of the veins and arteries, ligaments and badl channels of the uterus

Seven months after transplantation, embryos obtained by in vitro fertilization were implanted in the recipient. The fetus was developing normally, and at 35 weeks and three days later, he was delivered by caesarean section. The grafted uterus was also removed during the operation

because the graft

made pregnancy possible

. her uterus removed by a procedure of about 1.5 hours

The organ removed was rapidly transplanted to the recipient during an operation that lasted 10.5 hours with the connection of the veins and arteries, ligaments and badl channels of the uterus [19659015] The recipient has recovered from the operation, taking immunosuppressants and other drugs to prevent the rejection of uterus and infections

Seven months after transplantation, embryos obtained by in vitro fertilization were implanted in the recipient. The fetus was developing normally, and at 35 weeks and three days later, he was delivered by caesarean section. The grafted uterus was also removed during the operation

I thought it would take a long time to get to Brazil, only ten years or more, when I would not be old enough to do it, "he says.

Ledo's disappointment. Drs Dani Ejzenberg and Wellington Andraus of the USP HC Human Reproduction Center, who had already started working on the technique with experiments on sheep, were traveling to Gothenburg, Sweden to take a course with Mats Brännström, development of the procedure at the city university.

– We stayed there for a week and he shared Ejzenberg 's protocol for using the technique in human – narration.

Back in the country, Brazilian doctors continued their studies on animals, but also quickly began negotiations for the first operations in humans, with one fundamental difference: the uteri would come from deceased women . Until then, all the rare successes of the live birth procedure in the world came from living organ transplants.

However, it did not scare Ejzenberg and Andraus, who were willing to avoid the problems that resulted, the main ones being the difficulty in obtaining donations and the risks that the removal operation of the 39 uterus represents for donors.

– The advantage of a deceased donor is that we do not have the surgical risk of weaning and that it is simpler, shorter and cheaper – Ejzenberg emphasizes. – But the most important thing is that it helps to universalize access to this option. To have a living donor, a friend or family member usually has to give his uterus. Already, the uterus of a deceased can be removed with other organs by existing capture networks.

Process that two women with the same problem of X are anxiously waiting for it to happen to have the same joy as that with her daughter.

– My husband and I are very happy, he says. – It's a dream come true. For these women online, I say never to lose faith. Today, I have my daughter in my arms and tomorrow they can be them.