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The world's first baby born from a twins uterine transplant was born yesterday at the Santa Orsola Hospital in Bologna (Italy), confirmed the sources of this medical center
The delivery is done by caesarean section and the mother and the child are "in perfect health", according to a statement from Eugin, a group of assisted reproduction centers of reference to the Spanish and international scale part of which is part of the FIV Stockhol, whose director is the Swedish gynecologist Mats Brännström, who led the international medical team that intervened in this case.
The operation had as protagonists the sisters of the twins of Serbian origin living in Italy and one of them, the recipient, was born without a uterus because of d. a congenital malformation.
The transplant was performed in March 2017 at the Hospi of the Belgrade Children's University, after the recipient successfully underwent in vitro fertilization treatment and during pregnancy was assisted by Dr. Luca Gianaroli in Bologna.
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Pioneer. It is a pioneering transplant also in terms of treatment, because it is the first to be performed without immunosuppressive drug thanks to the perfect genetic compatibility between donor and recipient [19659009] First transplant. Mats Brännström is the author of the world's first uterine transplant, which took place in Sweden in 2014.
Attempts. Worldwide, 40 uterine transplant attempts were made, leading to 11 live births.
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