Complete the first uterine transplant in the United States

On February 24, the first US uterine transplant surgery ended successfully after 9 hours.

Doctors at Cleveland Hospital said that the patient involved in the surgery was a 26-year-old woman who was in stable condition and the transplanted uterus was donated from a previously deceased woman.

Doctor Andreas G. Tzakis, who directs the surgery, said the goal of uterine transplantation is to help women who are born without a womb, or a womb, have a chance to get pregnant and birth. According to medical reports, the 26-year-old patient will have to wait a year before becoming pregnant. It was the time needed for her to recover and let the doctors adjust the amount of medication she needed to take to prevent the risk of transplant rejection. Later, she will be given artificial insemination to get pregnant.

According to medical reports, the 26-year-old patient will have to wait a year before becoming pregnant.

To prepare for this historic surgery, doctors performed manipulation of the female patient's egg-sucking technique and performed artificial insemination with the husband's sperm before storing in the chamber. Frozen. After one year, the embryo will be inserted into this woman's new uterus. And yet, when the patient gave birth to one or two children - in other words after ensuring the need to maintain the race - doctors will have to perform a new surgery to remove this uterus from her body. . At that time, she will no longer have to take anti-rejection drugs regularly.

In fact, uterine implantation technique was first performed in 2012 in Sweden with very positive results when 4 out of 9 implant women were able to give birth normally. Dr. Andreas G. Tzakis himself - who has performed about 4,000 liver, kidney and other organ transplant surgeries - went to Sweden to learn the experience of doctors at the University Hospital Gothenburg - where The above implant surgery takes place.

Uterine implantation technique was first performed in 2012 in Sweden with very positive results.

In addition, the ethics committee of the Cleveland and Ohio state governments approved the decision to allow Cleveland Hospital to perform 10 experimental experimental uterine transplant surgeries. After that, the head of the hospital and the City Mayor will decide whether to provide this service regularly. It is estimated that in the United States there are about 50,000 women who desire to have a uterine transplant to give birth, even up to 5% of women worldwide have been diagnosed with no children.

In addition, Dr. Tzakis added that women do not have a damaged uterus or uterus that can adopt or hire a baby. However, many women do not accept these two solutions for personal, cultural or religious reasons. Therefore, graft surgery is the only hope for them. Even the patient himself, 26 years old, had surgery to confirm that she aspired to be pregnant and give birth like any other normal woman.